Pronunciations (3)
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/kɒp/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/kɑp/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/kɔp/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
Verb
To capture or arrest someone.
Usage- Dated
- Informal
- Transitive
To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
Usage- Informal
- Transitive
- Examples
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You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.
He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
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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.
Off the juice, codeine got me trippin' copped the coupe, woke up, roof is missin'...
Uh, copped a BMW, new deposit, I picked up another bag Like fuck it, I'ma count while I'm in it...
Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
Usage- Transitive
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When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.
I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.
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You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick What do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back, Open the trunk to the nickel-plate 38? “Wait wait, baby, please!” That's the shit he's coppin when he’s down on both his knees
I now understand that my dad didn't really have much of a father-son relationship and may have found my behaviour hard to deal with. Maybe that is why I copped a beating.
To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
Usage- Slang
- Transitive
To steal.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine
To adopt.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
Usage- Intransitive
- Slang
- usually
- with “to”
- Examples
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I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
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He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter
To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
Usage- Slang
- Transitive
- of a pimp
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I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.' She laid the bearskin and freaked the joint off with her lights and other crap. Except for the fake stars it was a fair mock-up of her pad where I had copped her.
The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.
To take (a look, glance, etc.).
Usage- Slang
- Transitive
- Examples
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Cop an eyeful of this!
Noun
A police officer or prison guard.
Usage- Informal
Noun
A spider.
Usage- Obsolete
Noun
A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
A merlon.
A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
Usage- Historical
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[…] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.
In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...
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Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.
A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
The top, summit, especially of a hill.
Usage- Obsolete
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Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils
Noun
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- Broader terms
Verb
take by theft
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Someone snitched my wallet!
take into custody
- Broader terms
- Examples
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the police nabbed the suspected criminals