cops

See also: còps

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒps/ (UK)

• Audio (AU)

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• Homophone: copse

Etymology 1

Noun

cops

1. plural of cop
2. (slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity.
   • 1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy

     "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.

   • 1976, Jacques Levy; Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan:

     I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive on the scene

Translations

law enforcement

• French: vaches (fr) f pl (cows), bœufs (fr) m pl (oxen) (Canada), chiens (fr) m pl (dogs) (Canada), vandames m pl, cognes (fr) m pl (the beat), cakes (fr) m pl (the cakes)
• German: Bullen (de) f pl
• Polish: gliny m pl, psy (pl) m pl

• Portuguese: tiras (pt) m or f, bófia f
• Turkish: aynasızlar pl

Verb

cops

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cop

Etymology 2

Noun

cops

1. (Britain, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
   • 1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry

     It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops […]

Anagrams

• COSP, CPOs, PCOS, PCSO, PoCs, scop

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Catalan

Noun

cops

1. plural of cop

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French

Noun

cops m

1. plural of cop