Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
helicopter, chopper, whirlybird, eggbeater
(noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
Source: WordNet® 3.1
helicopter (plural helicopters)
An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.
A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
(slang) A dragonfly.
A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.
• (aircraft): chopper (informal), copter (informal), eggbeater (slang), helo (military, slang), rotary-wing aircraft (technical), whirlybird (slang)
• (trowelling device): power trowel, trowel machine
• (winged fruit): samara, whirlybird
helicopter (third-person singular simple present helicopters, present participle helicoptering, simple past and past participle helicoptered)
(transitive) To transport by helicopter.
(intransitive) To travel by helicopter.
To rotate like a helicopter blade.
To overprotect one's children.
Source: Wiktionary
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.