cops

See also: còps

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒps/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑps/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɔps/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: copse
• Rhymes: -ɒps

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, “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 (pt) f
• Turkish: aynasızlar pl

Verb

cops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cop

Etymology 2

Noun

cops

1. (UK, 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, PoCs, scop

Catalan

Noun

cops

1. plural of cop

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

cops m

1. plural of cop

Latin

Etymology

From co- +‎ ops.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoːps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔps]

Adjective

cōps (genitive cōpis); third-declension one-termination adjective (Old Latin)

1. abounding in, rich, copious

   Synonym: cōpiōsus

   Antonym: inops

Usage notes

Not attested in the nominative singular; but compare inops.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	cōps			cōpēs	cōpia
genitive	cōpis			cōpium
dative	cōpī			cōpibus
accusative	cōpem	cōps		cōpīs cōpēs	cōpia
ablative	cōpī cōpe			cōpibus
vocative	cōps			cōpēs	cōpia

Derived terms

• cōpia

Related terms

• inops
• Ops
• opulentus

Further reading

• “cōps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cops”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• copis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Old English

Noun

cops m

1. alternative form of cosp