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Copper is a reddish-colored metallic element, widely used in manufacturing and industry.
Copper may also refer to:
Places
- Copper, Jackson County, Oregon, a submerged town
- Copper, Oregon (disambiguation)
- Copper Country, an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States
- Copper Lake (disambiguation)
- Copper Mine Gulch, California, United States
- Copper Mountain (disambiguation)
- Copper Mountains, Arizona, United States
- Copper Nunataks, Antarctic Peninsula
- Copper Peak, Michigan, United States
- Copper River (Alaska), a 300-mile (480 km) river in south-central Alaska in the United States
- Copper Salmon Wilderness, Oregon, United States
People
Surname
- Copper family, a long-established English family of folk singers
- Basil Copper (1924–2013), English writer and journalist
- Terrance Copper (born 1982), American footballer
Nickname
- Copper Kent (1891–c.1966), Australian rugby union player
Art, entertainment, and media
- Copper (comic), a web and print comic
- Copper (MUD), a DikuMUD (multiplayer text-based role-playing game)-based MUD launched in June 1991
- "Copper", the last song by minimalist rock trio Shellac on their album Terraform
- Copper, a fictional Coonhound in The Fox and the Hound, for both between the novel and film
Television
- Copper (TV series), a BBC America period TV drama
- Copper, a Canadian police drama now known as Rookie Blue
Biology
- Copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus), also known as the bronze whaler or narrowtooth shark
- The copper underwing (Amphipyra pyramidea), a moth of the family Noctuidae, distributed across the Palaearctic region
- Copper-colored restrepia, a copper-colored orchid
- Copperhead may refer to any of three different species of snakes:
- Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America
- Austrelaps, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania
- Elaphe radiata (copperhead rat snake), a nonvenomous species found in southern Asia
- The coppers, a nickname for the Lycaeninae, a family of butterflies
- Copper ant-blue (Acrodipsas cuprea), found in Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria
- Copper pencil-blue (Candalides cyprotus), found along the east coast of Australia, including South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria
Color
- Copper (color), the color of the metal
- Copper (heraldry), when used as a metal tincture in heraldry
- Copper, a coin of low value, brown- or copper-colored
Elements, materials, and technology
- Copper, an ornamental sheet of metal used by the indigenous tribes of the North American West Coast region, and a symbolic representation of a slave
- Copper, telecommunications jargon for twisted pair connections
- Copper, the Manhattan Project's codename for plutonium
- Copper, short for "co-processor", part of the original Amiga chipset
- Copper Project, a cloud-based project management software tool
- "Honest-to-God copper", actual copper (a pun on the slang for police officer)
Jargon or slang
- Copper, British or Australian slang for a police officer, hence the North American 'cop'
Vessels for liquids
- Copper, a brew kettle for making beer
- Copper, a large copper vessel used for heating water and laundry (archaic)
Other uses
- COPPeR (short for Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region), a certified nonprofit arts organization located in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, and serving El Paso and Teller Counties
- Copper Age, a phase in human technological development
- Copper ale, a style of beer
- Copper Riot (1662), a major riot which took place in Moscow
See also
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