cooper

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1[edit]

From coop +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

cooper (countable and uncountable, plural coopers)

1. A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

   Hypernym: barrelmaker

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.

2. (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

cooper (third-person singular simple present coopers, present participle coopering, simple past and past participle coopered)

1. (now rare) To make and repair barrels etc.
2. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To forge or imitate (writing).
   • 1872, Augustus Mayhew, Paved with Gold, page 269:

     […] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."

3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.
   • 1864, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 8, page 110:

     Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.

Derived terms[edit]

• broad cooper
• cooperage
• wine cooper

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

cooper (plural coopers)

1. Alternative form of coper (“floating grog shop”)

Verb[edit]

cooper (third-person singular simple present coopers, present participle coopering, simple past and past participle coopered)

1. Alternative form of coper (“operate as floating grog shop”)

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ellipsis of teste de Cooper (“Cooper test”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cooper m (plural cooperes)

1. (sports, dated) a slow-paced run intented to improve one's physical fitness.
   • 1982 July 16, Álfio Beccari, “A agradável solidão de correr”, Viva em Forma, in Placar, number 634, São Paulo: Abril, page 72, column 2:

     As razões, razões, obviamente, são de diversos tipos. Uma das mais corriqueiras, no entanto, brandidas usualmente nas rodinhas de atletas bissextos ao longo das pistas de cooper, é a de que “correr às vezes é chato”.

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   • 1998 December, Iara Crepaldi, quoting Abílio Diniz, “Chemical Brothers”, in Trip, volume 12, number 67, São Paulo: Trip, page 60:

     "Não há dúvida de que o cigarro é incompatível com o esporte. Já fumei muito, mas larguei quando comecei a levar o cooper a sério. Hoje, fumo dois cigarros por dia. E dois não são três. Se você souber dosar as coisas, dá para tirar muito mais prazeres da vida"

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   • 2005 November, Nina Lemos, “Gramática: palavras datadas”, Badulaque, in Tpm, volume 4, number 49, São Paulo: Trip, page 63, column 1:

     Corrida! Sim, no fim dos anos 70 e início dos 80 as pessoas tinham mania por correr. Fazer cooper salvava todos os males mundiais. Na mesma época, os prédios mais sofisticados da cidade eram os que tinham "pista de cooper", de preferência na cobertura.

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Further reading[edit]

• “cooper” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cooper” in Dicionário Online de Português.