copter

noun

1. (informal)A helicopter.

   “2005, Sin City (the film), Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police copter.”

verb

1. (informal, transitive)To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
2. (informal, intransitive)To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.
3. (informal, intransitive)To move like a helicopter.

   “The sidelong whiplash of his arm sent the boomerang soaring, pushing the sky to the horizon until the blade just hung there, a black slash on the sun so far away it seemed not to move at all before it came whirling back larger and larger: would it hit him, would he die — and you ducked down, terrified, clinging to his thigh, its deathspin slowing as it coptered softly down and he snatched it from the air.”