English Explanatory Dictionary

cop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. to capture or arrest someone
  2. To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
  3. To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
  4. To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
  5. To steal.
  6. To adopt.
  7. To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
  8. To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
  9. To take (a look, glance, etc.).
noun
  1. A police officer or prison guard.
noun
  1. A spider.
noun
  1. A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
  2. A merlon.
  3. A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
  4. A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
  5. The top, summit, especially of a hill.
noun
  1. Initialism of close of play.
  2. Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.
  3. Initialism of common operational picture.
  4. Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.
  5. Initialism of center of pressure.
  6. Initialism of coefficient of performance.
  7. Initialism of code of practice.
  8. Initialism of community of property.
  9. Initialism of cholesterol oxidation product.
name
  1. Abbreviation of ConocoPhillips.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”).
noun
  1. Initialism of center of pressure.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”).

Pronunciation

/kɒp/ /kɑp/ /kɔp/ En-au-cop.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Kavunczyk-Cop.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cop.wav

Word forms

cop cops copping copped

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

Synonyms

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Related words

check cop not much cop

Derived words

cop a feel cop a load of cop and blow cop a plea cop it cop off cop off with cop on cop oneself on cop one's whack cop onto cop out cop-out copout cop the bun cop the needle copland anticop beat cop buddy cop contempt of cop copaganda cop-call cop-caller cop-calling copcam cop car cophouse copicide cop killer cop-killer cop knock copless coplike cop number coppish coppy cops and robbers cop shop copstache cop wise cop-wise copwise cybercop death by cop fair cop fish cop flycop gambler's cop good cop bad cop grammar cop gravel road cop kotong cop language cops mall cop motor cop netcop ninja cop noncop rent-a-cop

Translations

Bulgarian: хва́щам Bulgarian: хва́на Bulgarian: пи́пвам Bulgarian: пи́пам Bulgarian: спи́пвам Bulgarian: спи́пам Bulgarian: ге́пя Czech: sebrat Finnish: napata Finnish: ottaa German: erlangen German: holen Greek: παίρνω Italian: afferrare Italian: prendere Italian: catturare Italian: acciuffare Russian: схвати́ть
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