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helo

[ hel-oh, hee-loh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Informal.

plural helos.

helicopter.

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Origin of helo¹

hel(icopter) + -o

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She has performed her song on the Today Show  and Jimmy Kimmel Live, providing Americans a new vision of Rio women by supplanting the original’s inspiration, a 17-year-old named Helô.

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“This is a large facility that will house helo pilots and response personnel under one roof to produce reduced response times to the missile complex,” Dammeier said.

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Navy helicopter crews are finding a lot to like with Southern West Virginia as a training area and a temporary home base, as the first of three Navy helo squadrons scheduled to conduct exercises here this fall winds up nine days of training in the Mountain State.

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"Countries that want to be global powers, countries that want to participate on the global stage, have a corresponding obligation to comply to the promises they make. China made a promise to the World Health Organization. There's a set of rules about disclosure, and when you have an incident in your country that could potentially lead to a pandemic, you have an obligation to report that and allow others co tome in and helo," Pompeo said in a video tweeted last week that was originally on The Hill's "Virtually Live."

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Bytedance also operates the now-banned Helo social networking app, which was created for the Indian market and has over 50 million users.

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What does��helo mean?

Helo is a slang term for helicopter.

Although the hel part of helicopter is pronounced with a short e (like hell), helo is sometimes pronounced with a long e and a long o: HEE-low.

Helo is most often used as military slang. In general, the slang term chopper is more commonly used to refer to a helicopter.

Example: Our helo crashed a few clicks back, so we’ve been on foot.

Where does��helo come from?

Helo is a fairly modern slang term for helicopter. It was popularized during the Vietnam War, which is sometimes called “The Helicopter War” since it was the first war that saw widespread use of the helicopter.

Another slang term for helicopter is copter. Helo instead shortens the first part and replaces the i with the ending -o, which is commonly used in slang variants of words. This all might lead you to believe that the word helicopter is a combination of the word parts heli (like you see in helipad—a helicopter landing pad) and copter. But helicopter ultimately derives from a combination of helico–, meaning “spiral,” and –pter, meaning “one with wings.” This ending comes from the Greek pteron, meaning “wing.” This root also forms the basis of part of the word pterodactyl, the famous flying dinosaur (or dino—there’s that –o ending again).

Helo is military slang. It’s especially used in the U.S. military, but members of different branches may use different slang terms for helicopters. Another common military slang term for a helicopter is simply bird.

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How is��helo used in real life?

Helo is most commonly used by current or former members of the U.S. military.

Throwback to flying helos in Iraq, 2006…showing support for in the World Cup!

— Anne McClain (@AstroAnnimal)

i kinda miss this… i definitely miss my abilities pre injuries… this was right before my bradley crash and helo crash… great night in oct 2003… not really!

— Trey Joslyn (@CPTJOZ)

Of 5 pax and 3 crew, 7 people were injured during a Mi-26 landing incident. The huge helo of Abakan Avia was written off during the incident that took place on the Yamal Peninsula (Russia) on 25 Apr'20. Our report at

— Scramble (@scramble_nl)

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H.M. is the best helo pilot I’ve ever seen—if it’s got rotors, he can fly it.

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