cop

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English coppe, from Old English *coppe, as in ātorcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from Old English copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gū- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.

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cop (plural cops)

  1. (obsolete) A spider.

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Possibly from Middle French capere (“to capture”), from Latin capere (“to seize, to grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to steal”), from West Frisian kāpia (“to take away”), from Old Frisian kapia, to buy.

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cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)

  1. (transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to 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.
  2. (transitive) to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear
    When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father
  3. (transitive) to steal
  4. (transitive) to adopt
    No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.
  5. (intransitive, usually with "to") to admit
    Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
    • 2005, Elmore Leonard, Mr. Paradise, page 295:
      He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter
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to capture, to take (informal)
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Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from cop (“one who cops”) above, i.e. a criminal.

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cop (plural cops)

  1. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
  2. (slang, offensive, African American Vernacular) by extension any white male especially large and clean cut
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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)

  1. (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
  2. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
  3. (obsolete) The head.

[edit] Etymology 5

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cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)

  1. (intransitive) (slang) to admit, especially to a crime.
    I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
  2. (transitive) to receive, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

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cop m. (plural cops)

  1. hit, blow, strike
  2. time, occasion

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German Zopf

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cop m.

  1. braid

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A shortened form of copain.

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  • [kɔp]

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cop m. (plural cops)

  1. (informal) A friend, a pal.

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cop m. (oblique plural cos, nominative singular cos, nominative plural cop)

  1. Alternative form of colp.

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cop m. (plural copy)

  1. braid

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  • declension pattern dub
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