coupla
/ˈkʌplə/contraction informal
Couple of: this is going to cost you a coupla quid I won’t be online much for the next coupla days...
- Maybe the Giants should get a coupla top prospects.
- The fixtures weren't fair to us a coupla months ago, hence our inability to drop our best players.
- Now anyone with a coupla grand and enough ambition can produce useless plastic junk that will end up in a landfill.
Origin
Early 20th century: alteration.
- devilling float
- devil-may-care
- devilment
- devil ray
- devilry
- devil's advocate
- devil's bit
- devil's claw
- devil's club
- devil's coach-horse
- devil's darning needle
- devil's food
- devils' food
- devil's food cake
- devil's grip
- Devil's Island
- devils on horseback
- devil's paintbrush
- Devil's Tower
- devil's walking stick
- deviltry
- devious
- deviously
- deviousness
- devisable