helicopterful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Enough to fill a helicopter.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From helicopter + -ful.