"helicopterful" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From helicopter + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|helicopter|ful|pos=noun}} helicopter + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|!}} helicopterful (plural not attested)
  1. Enough to fill a helicopter. Tags: no-plural

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          "ref": "1943 May 5, “Taxpayer Socked Again”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, fifty-seventh year, number 106, Asbury Park, N.J., page 8",
          "text": "While Sikorsky evidently didn’t discuss the matter, the shipment of farm crops probably will continue to be by truck or train, altho a helicopterful of cabbage flown to market today would pay off a fair-sized mortgage.",
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          "text": "And more:[…]Ari the multimillionaire using Olympic Airways (which he owns) to pick up his shirts in Athens for the only laundry in the world privileged to wash them, and Ari the lover raining a helicopterful of red roses over Jackie Onassis’ house on their island of Skorpios.",
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          "text": "While smoothing on aromatherapeutic oils, she revealed that a guest had once flashed a helicopterful of arrivals.",
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          "ref": "2018, Peter Bowen, Solus, New York, N.Y.: Open Road Integrated Media",
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