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.
- give (or lose) ground
- give (or lose) one's heart to
- give or take ——
- give out
- give over
- give pause to someone (or give someone pause for thought)
- give place to
- give pursuit
- giver
- give rise to
- give someone a bell
- give someone a bloody nose
- give someone a break
- give someone a dose (or taste) of their own medicine
- give someone a fit
- give someone a hard time
- give someone a holler
- give someone a mouthful
- give someone an inch and he (or she) will take a mile
- give someone a piece of one's mind
- give someone a shout
- give someone away
- give someone Bondi
- give someone credit for
- give someone grief