English Explanatory Dictionary

copicide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her.
  2. The act of killing a police officer.

Word forms

copicide copicides

Etymology

From cop + -icide.

Synonyms

death by cop suicide by cop
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