"Kupras" is a word in CEBUANO
kupras n copra, dried coconut meat.
v {1} [A; a2] make, get co-pra.
Magkupras mig ipatimbang, We will make copra to sell by the kilo.
Kuprásun ang kalubihan káda trimistri, The coconut plantation is harvested (made to copra) every four months.
{2} [AN; a12] get money from a candidate and then fail to vote for him.
Gikupras lang diay ang salapì sa kandidátu kay napildi man, The people must have pocketed the money and not voted for him because he lost.
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
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