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coper

[ koh-per ]

noun

British.
  1. a horse dealer.


coper

/ ˈəʊə /

noun

  1. a horse-dealer
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of coper1

First recorded in 1600–10; cope 4 + -er 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of coper1

C17 (a dealer, chapman): from dialect cope to buy, barter, from Low German; related to Dutch koopen to buy
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Finally there is what Clasen described as the "dark coper," or "somebody who actively uses horror movies to cope with a world that they perceive to be frightening. For them it's a kind of medicine and many of them actually quite literally use horror movies as a form of medication to treat symptoms of generalized anxiety or even clinical depression."

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Those accounts were recently created, have almost no history, and have been "duplicating the exact same content", says communications adviser Ed Coper.

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Coper homered in the eighth for a 4-1 lead as Smit allowed a home run for his third straight outing.

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"She was a nurturer, she was a coper," said Dr McAleese, who recently spent a day with Mrs Hume.

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Modernist ceramists such as Bernard Leach and, later, the Austrian-born British potter Lucie Rie and the German-born Hans Coper, who started out as Rie’s assistant, made a case for expressive handmade vessels, a movement that was accelerated in the 1940s by nationwide restrictions, instituted to save resources for the war effort, on decorating mass-produced ceramics.

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