cop

UK /kɒp/ US /kɑp/

noun 15verb 5name 1

Definitions

verb

to capture or arrest someone

To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.

You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.

He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.

To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.

I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.

To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

To steal.

Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine

noun

A police officer or prison guard.

noun

A spider.

Collocations

ADJ.

dirty, fair, independent, largest, new

The new cop on the beat quickly earned respect from the neighborhood residents.

VERB + COP

arm, can't, crooked, steps, tried, undercover

The undercover cop tried to blend in with the street gang for months.

COP + NOUN

conference, coudiere, epauliere, pauldron, smack

The knight adjusted his cop pauldron before mounting his horse for battle.

PREP.

on, out, out, through

I copped out of the meeting because I wasn't feeling well that day.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

verb — take into custody

verb — take by theft

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

cop on

Common sense.

That eejit has no cop on.

cop out

To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.

Faced with the prospect of cooking for himself, his first thought was to cop out and order a pizza.

cop oneself on

to cop on, stop behaving immaturely

2016 January 13, Robert Mulhern, "British Army GAA team debate: ‘Croke Park have more or less told London to cop themselves on’ Cork Examiner

cop one's whack

To die.

...or the time the phone rang in the middle of the night and they knew before they answered that Auntie Jeanie had copped her whack.

Example Bank

You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.

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He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.

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Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.

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[…] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the brea

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In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...

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Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, cop is marked as dated, informal, slang, obsolete, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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