coupla

From couple of.

coupla

1. (singular only, slang, used attributively only, always preceded by a) Two.

   There's a coupla guys here to see you.

2. (singular only, slang, used attributively only) A few; a small number.

   I've been to New York a coupla times.

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 287628, page 54:

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

• couple

• copula, cupola, pocula

• Homophones: couplas, couplât

coupla

1. third-person singular past historic of coupler