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n. (plural of copper English)
Wikipedia
Coppers may refer to:
- butterflies from the Lycaeninae family
- Police officers
- Coppers (TV series), a 2010 and 2012 British documentary series about policing in the United Kingdom
- Rome Coppers, a 2007 American baseball team of the New York State League
- Vermont copper, an 18th-century copper coin minted by the Vermont Republic until admission to the United States
- Coins of the pound sterling, collectively 1p and 2p decimal coins, due to their copper plating
Coppers is a British fly-on-the-wall documentary television series broadcast on Channel 4, about policing in the United Kingdom. First broadcast on 1 November 2010, the series followed the day-to-day lives of police officers (colloquially known as 'coppers') from four territorial police forces around the country, covering various activities: custody suite operations, road unit policing, 999 response, night time policing and riot control.
A second series began on 9 January 2012 at 9pm and ran for 8 episodes.
Usage examples of "coppers".
It still irked Vimes that the little training school in the old lemonade factory was turning out so many coppers who quit the city the moment their probation was up.
It would have worked, too, if only there had been enough coppers - say, three per citizen.
Bad coppers had always had their ways of finding out if someone was guilty.
All the coppers who heard it would converge on it, because an Officer was in Trouble.
On that road coppers rolled drunks for their small change and assured one another that bribes were just perks, and it got worse.
And if you were lucky and they were sensible, they found somewhere between impossible perfection and the Pit where they could be real coppers - slightly tarnished, because the job did that to you, but not rotten.
How had he even dreamed that a bunch of coppers could slam the cell door on the boss?
People expected all kinds of things from coppers, but there was one thing that sooner or later they all wanted: make this not be happening.
The old coppers were best at running, having run so much during their lives.
Brysta, and when he began to ask for coppers, most moved well away from him.
She had eaten, and she had found coppers, but he was missing something.
When he found out that fellow been lifting coppers, he booted him off just like that, and he took his crew share, divided it among the hands who lost coins.
He handed over four coppers and received another smile, a brief one as she hurried back to the kitchen.
Special Branch coppers working under himthey do the surveillance, arrests, all the legwork, that sort of thing.
Stilton put a few coppers on the table and waved Cal down when he reached for his wallet.