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telecopter en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of tele- + helicopter.

Meanings

1. A helicopter used by a television news channel to gather footage.
   • The angle came from a helicopter—KTLA-TV’s “telecopter” was the first of its kind. The utility of the Korean War–vintage Bell 47G-5 with the camera affixed to its belly had so far been mostly prurient: shots of the swimming pool where Marlon Brando’s maid had drowned; of the well that swallowed a darling little girl; of movie stars’ mansions being devoured by brush fires in the Hollywood hills. 2008, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland, New York […] : Scribner, →ISBN, page 3:

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