coop

an enclosure or cage: a chicken coop; a co-op: They bought their food at a co-op.
Not to be confused with:coup – (koo) a brilliant stratagem; overturn; upset: His win was quite a coup.coupe – a closed two-door car; a frozen dessert: She chose the coupe rather than the sedan.

coop

C0623600 (ko͞op) n. 1. A small enclosure or cage, as for poultry or small animals. 2. A cramped or uncomfortably confined space. 3. Slang A jail or prison. tr.v. cooped, coop·ing, coops 1. To confine or keep (poultry, for example) in a coop. 2. To confine in a small or cramped space. Often used with up: was cooped up in the cabin during the storm. Idiom: fly (or blow) the coopTo make a getaway; escape.

[Middle English coupe, possibly from Middle Dutch kūpe, basket, tub, from Germanic *kūpōn, possibly from Latin cūpa, cask; see cupola.]

coop

(kuːp) n1. (Agriculture) a cage or small enclosure for poultry or small animals2. a small narrow place of confinement, esp a prison cell3. (Angling) a wicker basket for catching fishvb (tr; often foll by up or in) to confine in a restricted area[C15: probably from Middle Low German kūpe basket, tub; related to Latin cūpa cask, vat]

coop

(ˈkəʊˌɒp) or

co-op

n (Commerce) a cooperative, cooperative society, or shop run by a cooperative society

coop

the internet domain name for (Computer Science) a cooperative

co-op

(ˈkoʊ ɒp)

n. a cooperative enterprise, building, or apartment. Idioms: go co-op, (of an apartment building) to convert to a cooperative. [1860–65; by shortening] co′-op•er, n.

coop

(kup, kʊp)

n. 1. an enclosure or cage in which poultry or small animals are penned. 2. a confined space. 3. Slang. prison. v.t. 4. to place in or as if in a coop (often fol. by up). Idioms: fly the coop, to escape. [1250–1300; Middle English coupe basket, perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian kaup wooden can; akin to Old English cȳpa basket]

coop

Past participle: cooped
Gerund: cooping

Imperative
coop
coop

Present
I coop
you coop
he/she/it coops
we coop
you coop
they coop

Preterite
I cooped
you cooped
he/she/it cooped
we cooped
you cooped
they cooped

Present Continuous
I am cooping
you are cooping
he/she/it is cooping
we are cooping
you are cooping
they are cooping

Present Perfect
I have cooped
you have cooped
he/she/it has cooped
we have cooped
you have cooped
they have cooped

Past Continuous
I was cooping
you were cooping
he/she/it was cooping
we were cooping
you were cooping
they were cooping

Past Perfect
I had cooped
you had cooped
he/she/it had cooped
we had cooped
you had cooped
they had cooped

Future
I will coop
you will coop
he/she/it will coop
we will coop
you will coop
they will coop

Future Perfect
I will have cooped
you will have cooped
he/she/it will have cooped
we will have cooped
you will have cooped
they will have cooped

Future Continuous
I will be cooping
you will be cooping
he/she/it will be cooping
we will be cooping
you will be cooping
they will be cooping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been cooping
you have been cooping
he/she/it has been cooping
we have been cooping
you have been cooping
they have been cooping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been cooping
you will have been cooping
he/she/it will have been cooping
we will have been cooping
you will have been cooping
they will have been cooping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been cooping
you had been cooping
he/she/it had been cooping
we had been cooping
you had been cooping
they had been cooping

Conditional
I would coop
you would coop
he/she/it would coop
we would coop
you would coop
they would coop

Past Conditional
I would have cooped
you would have cooped
he/she/it would have cooped
we would have cooped
you would have cooped
they would have cooped

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	coop - a farm building for housing poultrychicken coop, hencoop, henhousefarm building - a building on a farm
	2.	coop - an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be keptcagebirdcage - a cage in which a bird can be keptenclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purposehutch - a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animalssquirrel cage - cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it

coop

noun pen, pound, box, cage, enclosure, hutch, corral (chiefly U.S. & Canad.) Behind the house, the pair set up a chicken coop.coop someone up confine, imprison, shut up, impound, pound, pen, cage, immure He was cooped up in a cell with ten other inmates.

coop

nounSlang. A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention:brig, house of correction, jail, keep, penitentiary, prison.Informal: lockup, pen.Slang: big house, can, clink, cooler, hoosegow, joint, jug, pokey, slammer, stir.Chiefly Regional: calaboose.verbTo confine within a limited area.In or up:cage, enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen, shut in, shut up, wall (in or up).

Translations

栏舍笼子

coop

(kuːp) noun a box or cage for keeping fowls or small animals in. a chicken-coop. （关家禽等的）笼子，栏舍 coop up to shut into a small place. We've been cooped up in this tiny room for hours.把...禁闭起来

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blow the coop

To leave or escape (something). This lecture is so boring. Come on, let's blow the coop and go get a drink somewhere! I'm definitely blowing the coop when I turn 18—I can't wait to have a little freedom!See also: blow, coop

go co-op

Typically said of an apartment building that has become a cooperative (or "co-op")—a building in which residents do not own property but rather own shares in the corporation that owns the building. I can't believe that our building is going co-op—I might need to move.See also: go

coop up

To restrict someone or something to a particular, usually small, space for a length of time. A noun or pronoun can be used between "coop" and "up." Just let the dogs run in the yard—they've been cooped up all day. After that snowstorm cooped us up for days, we were thrilled to leave the house again.See also: coop, up

fly the coop

To leave or escape (something). This lecture is so boring. Come on, let's fly the coop and go get a drink somewhere! I'm definitely flying the coop when I turn 18—I can't wait to have a little freedom!See also: coop, fly

coop someone or something up

to confine someone or something in a small place. Don't coop me up. I can't stand small places. We had to coop up the dogs for a while.See also: coop, up

fly the coop

Fig. to escape; to get out or get away. (Alludes to a chicken escaping from a chicken coop.) I couldn't stand the party, so I flew the coop. The prisoner flew the coop at the first opportunity.See also: coop, fly

fly the coop

Escape, run away, as in After years of fighting with my mother, my father finally flew the coop. This term originally meant "escape from jail," known as the coop in underworld slang since the late 1700s. [Late 1800s] See also: coop, fly

fly the coop

If someone flies the coop, they leave the situation that they are in, often because they want to have more freedom or want to do something different. Aged 21, I felt the time was right to fly the coop and my parents were okay about it. It should be a proud moment, junior hairwasher grows up, graduates to senior stylist and then flies the coop to set up in a salon of his or her own. Compare with fly the nest. Note: A coop is a small cage in which chickens or small animals are kept. `Coop' is also American slang for a prison. See also: coop, fly

fly the coop

make your escape. informal 1991 Julia Phillips You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again Has David left? Nah, he would want to make sure I'm really ensconced, or I might fly the coop. See also: coop, fly

fly the ˈcoop

(informal, especially American English) escape from a place: He was never happy living at home with his parents, so as soon as possible he flew the coop and got his own place.A coop is a cage for chickens, hens, etc.See also: coop, fly

fly the coop

tv. to escape from somewhere; to get away. I was afraid he would fly the coop if I didn’t tie him up. See also: coop, fly

fly the coop, to

To escape. This expression, with its analogy to barnyard fowl escaping from a chicken coop or other enclosure, is American in origin and dates from about 1900. “On the third day I flew the coop,” wrote O. Henry (The Enchanted Profile, 1909). More recently Harry Kemelman used it in Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry (1966): “This man ran off . . . flew the coop, beat it.”See also: fly

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noun pen

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noun a place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention

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verb to confine within a limited area

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noun a farm building for housing poultry

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noun an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

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