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单词 to cop a packet
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to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet
f. colloquial (originally Military). A bullet or other missile; a bullet wound; (more generally) trouble, misfortune. Only in to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet: to be killed or wounded; (also) to get into trouble, to be reprimanded.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] > be killed
to be deadc1000
fallOE
spilla1300
suffera1616
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) toa1774
to lose the number of one's mess1807
to go up1825
to get his (also hers, theirs)1903
to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916
click1917
not to know (or to wonder) what hit one1923
to get the works1928
to go for a burton1941
(to get) the chop or chopper1945
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > be rebuked or scolded
to hear of it1598
to get on (also upon) the finger ends1693
to get one's lug in one's loof1744
to get wrong1803
to catch or get Jesse1839
to come in for it1841
to get hell1851
to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916
to have a strip torn off1940
1916 Duke of Cambridge's Own ‘Fall in’ 22 Apr. 207/2 ‘Copped a packet’ or ‘clicked’..wounded.
1916 P. MacGill Red Horizon v. 59 One of our boys was seated..blood trickling down his arm on to his clothes..a red gash showing above the knee... ‘Stopped a packet, matey?’ Stoner enquired.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 219 Packet, a bullet wound, e.g. it would be said of a wounded man:—He ‘stopped a packet’ or ‘bought a packet’—i.e., got hit by a bullet. Also, any trouble or unexpected bad luck.
1927 P. MacDonald Patrol iv. 31 ‘Christ!’ The Jew laughed. ‘Thought you was a Buddoo, Sergeant. You nearly caught a packet.’
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise vii. 120 I'm really fearfully sorry you copped that packet that was meant for me.
1978 A. Price '44 Vintage iii. 39 We've been disbanded... The same thing's happening to the 2nd Northants, they've caught a packet too.
1989 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder goes Forth in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 439/2 Blackadder. And Bumfluff himself? George. Copped a packet at Gallipoli with the Ozzies.
2007 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 26 July 6 Regular Journal correspondent TP Gidman certainly copped a packet in last week's letters page concerning his missive about smoking.
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