Meaning

3 senses
  1. (archaic)To make and repair barrels etc.

    make barrels and casks

  2. (obsolete, slang, transitive)To forge or imitate (writing).

  3. (obsolete, slang, transitive)To intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom is a cooper.

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  2. Cooper is having trouble coping today.

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  3. Cooper pairs are electron pairs formed in superconductors.

    ruКуперовские пары - это пары электронов, образующиеся в сверхпроводниках.

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  4. In conventional superconductors, the Cooper pairs are responsible for superconductivity.

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  5. In this clip, an astonished Anderson Cooper reacts to Trump's outlandish claim.

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Forms

coopers, coopering, coopered, coopered
Base formcooper · to cooper
3rd person singularcoopers
Present participlecoopering
Past simplecoopered
Past participlecoopered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycooper
he, she, itcoopers

Past simpleLesson

all personscoopered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave coopered
he, she, ithas coopered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cooper

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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