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单词 to cop a nod
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to cop a nod
a. An involuntary forward movement of the head in a person who has fallen asleep or is drowsy; a short sleep, a nap; (in extended use) a lapse (cf. nod v. 2c). Now chiefly in to cop a nod (U.S. slang): to have a short sleep.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance or period of > short or light > with movement of head
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c1610–15 Life St. Margaret in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 111 She permitted her bodie to take a little nodd or sleepe.
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iv. sig. H1v Common wealths men Are ever subjects to the nods; sit downe sir, A short nap is not much amisse.
a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 21 When the Spewing-fit is over, he'll sit down to take a Nod.
1793 Regal Rambles 69 Even Homer had his nods now and then.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lix. 309 With a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod, the negro yelled out—‘There!’
1894 A. I. Ritchie Chapters from Mem. vi. 70 My own head..came down with a sleepy nod.
1944 C. Calloway Hepsters Dict. Nod, sleep. Ex., ‘I think I'll cop a nod.’
1971 D. Wells & S. Dance Night People 99 He would start rehearsing when I was trying to cop a nod.
1997 J. Tate Shroud of Gnome 62 Most of these people have big plans, careers the likes of which I can barely imagine. Cop a plea, cop a nod, that kind of thing.
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