Full record for copter n.

Definition	short for helicopter
OED requirements	antedating 1946
Earliest cite	Lwis Padgett, "Time Enough"
Comment	Mike Christie submitted a 1946 cite from "Time Enough", by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) earliest cite in the OED is a non-SF newspaper story from 1947
Last modified	31 August, 2009

Citations for copter n.

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1946 ‘L. Padgett’ Time Enough in Astounding Sci. Fiction Dec. 140/1	A copter picked up Dyson and the Old 'Uns half an hour later.
1946 ‘L. Padgett’ Time Enough in Astounding Sci. Fiction Dec. 140/1	A copter picked up Dyson and the Old 'Uns half an hour later.
1950 R. Heinlein Farmer in Sky (1975) xi. 108	A few minutes by tube, an up-and-down hop for a copter—brother, have you ever walked twenty miles?
1954 C. Oliver Friend to Man in W. F. Nolan Edge of Forever (1971) 87	One of the sounds was that of a copter, overhead, but you couldn't see it, of course,
1964 P. K. Dick War with Fnools in We Can Remember It Wholesale (1994) 42	Captain Lightfoot sighed and left the CIA office at once, hurrying to the 'copter field across the street to begin his trip to Provo, Utah.