English-language nicknames for helicopter include chopper, copter, helo, heli andwhirlybird.
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Whirligigs are also known as pinwheels, buzzers, comic weathervanes, gee-haws, spinners, whirlygigs, whirlijig, whirlyjig,whirlybird, or plain whirly.
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