Meaning of copper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A police officer.
   slang
2. A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element
3. A reddish-brown metal, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
   uncountable
4. A surname.
5. The reddish-brown colour of copper (etymology 1 sense 1)
6. The reddish-brown colour / color of copper.
   countable, uncountable
7. Any of various specialized items that are made of copper, where the use of copper is either traditional or vital to the function of the item.
   countable, dated
8. In full copper butterfly: any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia
9. A copper coin, typically of a small denomination, such as a penny.
   countable, dated
10. A copper mug used for drinking alcoholic beverages
11. A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
    Australia, UK, countable, dated, uncountable
12. Any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Trump’s July 8 announcement of a 50% tariff on copper imports beginning August 1 sent prices surging 13% in one day, up to a record high of $5.69 per pound.”

“Coppers are generally good for a year, if the battery is carefully attended […]”

“Some coppers come already tinned. I didn't buy mine, so they surely were not tinned.”

“Coppers are not consumed, and their life depends largely on the manner in which they are used.”

“I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.”

“"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]."”

“Mum would heat the water in a copper in the kitchen and transfer it to the tin bath.”

“I explain that socks can’t be boiled up in the copper with the sheets and towels or they shrink.”

“When the water in the copper boils, the arsenic and tartar, well pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.”

“'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'”

“He rose to his knees, for he had been sitting in the darkness near the copper.”

“'Vot game now she play?' he asked himself, as he distinguished his wife near one of the pig-scalding coppers.”

“The wet laundry's stove had a long vent in the ceiling which helped to release the steam from the coppers in which the clothes and bed linen were boiled.”

“One evening as I was lying down in Leicester Square / I was picked up by the coppers and kicked in the balls”

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