coop

Meanings

1. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
2. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
3. A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
4. A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
5. An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.

1. To keep in a coop.
2. To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
3. To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
4. Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
5. To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

1. A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
2. A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

1. A small heap.

1. Alternative form of co-op.

1. A surname.

1. Diminutive of Cooper.
2. A surname.
3. A male given name.

1. Initialism of cross-origin opener policy.

Etymology

From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.