cophouse

English

Etymology

cop +‎ house

Noun

cophouse (plural cophouses)

1. (slang) A police station.
   • 1999, John Gittings, China through the sliding door: reporting three decades of change:

     Public security is one of the services still under military control, as I discovered in Beijing when I and another colleague inadvertently ended up in the local cophouse.

   • 2007, Loren D. Estleman, American Detective (page 86)

     I had a little over two hours before I turned back into a church mouse and had to report to the head cat at the cophouse.

   • 2009, Cornelius Kane, The Unscratchables (page 15)

     I took breakfast in a little muncheonette three doors down from the cophouse.

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