coupla

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌplə/

coupla

1. (colloquial) Contraction of couple of.

   There's a coupla guys here to see you.

   I've been to New York a coupla times.

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 54:

     “ […] Did you make her be late signing in?” […] “Coupla minutes,” he said.

• copula, cupola, pocula

• Homophones: couplas, couplât

coupla

1. third-person singular past historic of coupler