cop
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From Latin and Old French capere (“‘to capture’”).
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to cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)
- (informal) To capture, get hold of, take.
- 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10,
- 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.
- 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10,
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Short for copper (“‘police officer’”), itself from cop (“‘one who cops’”) above, i.e. a criminal. Sometimes explained as deriving from copper buttons or badges of early NYPD or uniforms or on those worn by the first London Police Force of the 1820s, though this is often stated to be a folk etymology. 'Cop' has long existed as a verb meaning "to take or seize"; the first example of 'cop' taking the meaning 'to arrest' appeared in 1844, and the word swiftly moved from simply meaning 'to arrest into police custody' to encompass the individual doing the detaining. (Reference: http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/cop.asp Snopes Article )
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cop (plural cops)
- (slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
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- See also Wikisaurus:police officer
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Old English cop, copp, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.
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cop (plural cops)
- (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
- (obsolete) The head.
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to cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)
- (intransitive) (slang) to admit, especially to a crime.
- I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
- (transitive) to receive, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
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cop
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German Zopf
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cop m.
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A shortened form of copain.
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- [kɔp]
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cop m. (plural cops)
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- cop m., copy pl.
- cop stem
- declension pattern dub