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chopper coppers
noun
the police in helicopters US, 1970
Quoted as a term used by residents of Berkeley, California.- Chopper coppers are helicopter fliers. — New York Times, p. 34, 20 October 1958
- — New York Times, p. 24, 10 February 1970
- Most of it was growing outside on a porch, clearly visible to anybody at a higher elevation, such as, say, a snooping copper chopper. — Larry “Ratso” Sloman, Reefer Madness, p. 420, 1979
- That game’s halftime show will include an exhibition by LAPD’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit, as well as helicopter-borne officers flying into the stadium and rappelling from the “copper choppers” to a simulated crime scene on the Coliseum floor. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. D6, 24 January 1990
- These chopper coppers are zeroing on Ruby[.] — John King, White Trash, p. 6, 2001
- There’s a new breed of police officer on the hunt for the menacing motorists who make highway travel an unwelcome hell ride: the chopper copper. — Boston Herald, p. 5, 9 June 2001
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