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Garner's Modern American Usage
See CO- & PUNCTUATION (J). copacetic; *copasetic; *copesetic; *copesettic.
The first spelling is preferred for this tongue-in-cheek term meaning “first-rate;
quite satisfactory.” The word is slangy and jocular. Its ETYMOLOGY—variously ...
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The Percy Hargrove Stories: It's All Elementary
“Hey, It's all copesettic!” I replied, slapping the palm of his right hand with mine.
The truth was that neither of us knew exactly what copesettic meant, but we'd
heard older guys say it and it sounded cool. So we stole it as our official greeting.
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The Chambers Dictionary
Copemican ko-pur'ni-km, adj relating to Copernicus, the famous Polish
astronomer (1473- 1 543), or to his system, in which it was demonstrated that the
earth revolves about the sun. copesettic. See copacetic. copia verborum ko 'pi-j
vur-bo ...
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Shorter Slang Dictionary
Later 20th century. copasetic, copacetic, copesettic or copesetic allclear;
excellent; satisfactory; fine, as in everything's copasetic. US and Canadian.
Possibly ofChinook or Yiddish origin. cop out, v. to evade an issue; totake the
easy way out; ...
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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Studies in Etymology and Etiology: With Emphasis on ...
... in other dictionaries, which give none. [1] copacetic ~ copasetic ~ copesetic ~
copesettic ~ copisettic AMERICAN ENGLISH SLANG COPACETIC 'FINE, ALL
RIGHT' HAS NO HEBREW, YIDDISH, OR OTHER JEWISH CONNECTION 57-76.
David L. Gold, Antonio Lillo Buades, Félix Rodríguez González, 2009
... killing was not copesettic. A neater way. Stall. The fanbelt was running on its
last threads: Brad's death wouldn't prevent the break. Grease-balls and flaws in
the scheme. “Okay, Brad. Okay. I need time. Ten thousand is a lot——” “
Tomorrow.
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Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American ...
That was the hardest part. The passport did the rest. Applying for a Visa Credit
Card wasn't quite so copesettic. The computer said The Impostor already had
one. "Uh, excuse me, I forgot." A day later, elsewhere, Mason applied— with
fingers ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
All safe, wholly safe; all clear; excellent, most attractive: Can. adaptation, ca.
1925, of US copesettic (Berrey and Van den Bark). Ex 'Chinook jargon,
developed as a trading pidgin by the water-borne tribes of western Washington [
State] and ...
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One step in the clouds: an omnibus of mountaineering novels ...
I hadda teach you a lesson, show you who's in charge, but now you just do what I
tell you and everything's copesettic' He took out a cigarette with one hand and lit
it with a Bic lighter. 'Now, back out of here, and when you get to the road, turn ...
Audrey Salkeld, Rosie Smith, 1990
The air is sweet and heavy like thick bodied Grenadine, the air edged wine red. a
fish's belly glitters Tugging at the small sprout ears and exploring the corridors
that swim into the chan- until St. Augustine and the copesettic Copernicus of ...
