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copper captain en · NOUN

Meanings

A person falsely giving themselves the title of captain.
- Michael Perez, the copper captain 1777, Francis Beaumont, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (play), page 4
- To this copper captain therefore, was confided the command of the troops. 1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York: (books III-VII):

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
copper captains	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (1)

gv far-chaptan (a person falsely giving themselves the title of captain)