Copper (disambiguation)

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

• Capper (disambiguation)
• Coppa (disambiguation)
• Coppers (disambiguation)
• Koppa (disambiguation)