Meaning of helicopterful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a helicopter.

no-plural

Examples

“While Sikorsky evidently didn’t discuss⟳ the matter⟳, the shipment of farm crops probably will continue⟳ to be by truck or train⟳, altho a helicopterful of cabbage flown to market today would pay⟳ off a fair-sized mortgage.”

“Bugs has picked up a helicopterful of musical souvenirs on his harmonious hop around the globe.”

“And more:[…]Ari the multimillionaire using Olympic Airways (which he owns) to pick⟳ up his shirts in Athens for the only laundry in the world privileged to wash⟳ them, and Ari the lover raining a helicopterful of red roses over Jackie Onassis’ house on their island of Skorpios.”

“How, officials worried, can they keep⟳ Albuquerque’s many other hometown ballonists^([sic]) from staging an impromptu salute to their victorious colleagues by heading skyward—and possibly tangling with a helicopterful of confetti, the four military jets and the Spirit of St. Louis?”

“A wounded professional soldier blows up both himself and a helicopterful of generals.”

“While smoothing on aromatherapeutic oils, she revealed that a guest had once flashed a helicopterful of arrivals.”

“But then, I asked them nicely to be careful when I was so rudely interrupted by six Highway Patrol cars and a fucking helicopterful of SWAT guys.”

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