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单词 cop
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cop

1
[ kop ]
/ kɒp /
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verb (used with object), copped, cop·ping.Slang.

to catch; nab.
to steal; filch.
to buy (narcotics).

Verb Phrases

cop out, Slang.
  1. to avoid one's responsibility, the fulfillment of a promise, etc.; renege; back out (often followed by on or of): He never copped out on a friend in need. You agreed to go, and you can't cop out now.
  2. cop a plea.

Idioms for cop

    cop a plea, Slang.
    1. to plead guilty or confess in return for receiving a lighter sentence.
    2. to plead guilty to a lesser charge as a means of bargaining one's way out of standing trial for a more serious charge; plea-bargain.

Origin of cop

1
First recorded in 1695–1705; of uncertain origin; compare cap (obsolete) “to arrest,” Scots cap “to seize,” ultimately from dialectal Old French caper “to take,” from Latin capere

Words nearby cop

cootie, cooty, Coover, co-own, cooze, cop, copacetic, cop a feel, copaiba, copaiba oil, copal

Definition for cop (2 of 6)

cop2
[ kop ]
/ kɒp /

noun Informal.

a police officer.
a person who seeks to regulate a specified behavior, activity, practice, etc.: character cops.

Origin of cop

2
First recorded in 1855–60; shortening of copper2

Definition for cop (3 of 6)

cop3
[ kop ]
/ kɒp /

noun

a conical mass of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a spindle.
British Dialect. the top or tip of something, as the crest of a hill.

Origin of cop

3
First recorded before 1000; Middle English cop(e), coppe “summit, peak; top (of a tower, building),” also “crown (of the head),” Old English cop(p) “tip, top, summit”; probably cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf “head”; see cup

Definition for cop (4 of 6)

COP

abbreviation Thermodynamics.

coefficient of performance.

Definition for cop (5 of 6)

cop.

copper.
copyright; copyrighted.

Definition for cop (6 of 6)

Cop.

Copernican.
Coptic.
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British Dictionary definitions for cop (1 of 4)

cop1
/ (kɒp) slang /

noun

verb cops, copping or copped (tr)

See also cop off, cop out

Word Origin for cop

C18: (vb) perhaps from obsolete cap to arrest, from Old French caper to seize; sense 1, back formation from copper ²

British Dictionary definitions for cop (2 of 4)

cop2
/ (kɒp) /

noun

a conical roll of thread wound on a spindle
mainly dialect the top or crest, as of a hill

Word Origin for cop

Old English cop, copp top, summit, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old English copp cup

British Dictionary definitions for cop (3 of 4)

cop3
/ (kɒp) /

noun

British slang (usually used with a negative) worth or valuethat work is not much cop

Word Origin for cop

C19: n use of cop 1 (in the sense: to catch, hence something caught, something of value)

British Dictionary definitions for cop (4 of 4)

COP

abbreviation for (in New Zealand)

Certificate of Proficiency: a pass in a university subject
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