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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cop•ping (kop′ing),USA pronunciation n. - Textilesthe winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc. Also called quilling.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cop1 /kɑp/USA pronunciation v., copped, cop•ping. Informal.- to seize or steal:She copped first prize in the contest.
- cop out, [no object]to avoid a responsibility:He was going to help us but at the last minute he copped out.[~ + out + on + object]Don't cop out on us again.
Idioms- Idioms cop a plea, to plea-bargain.
cop2 /kɑp/USA pronunciation n. [countable][Informal.]- Informal Terms a police officer.
cop., an abbreviation of:- copyright;
copyrighted.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cop1 (kop),USA pronunciation v.t., copped, cop•ping. [Informal.]- Informal Termsto catch;
nab. - Informal Termsto steal;
filch. - Informal Termsto buy (narcotics).
- Idioms cop a plea:
- to plead guilty or confess in return for receiving a lighter sentence.
- 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.
- cop out:
- to avoid one's responsibility, the fulfillment of a promise, etc.;
renege;
back out (often fol. by on or of ):He never copped out on a friend in need. You agreed to go, and you can't cop out now. - cop a plea.
- Latin capere
- compare cap (obsolete) to arrest, Scots cap to seize dialect, dialectal Old French caper to take, ultimately 1695–1705
- Informal Termsa police officer.
- a person who seeks to regulate a specified behavior, activity, practice, etc.:character cops.
- clipping of copper2 1855–60
- a conical mass of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a spindle.
- British Termscrest;
tip.
- bef. 1000; Middle English, Old English cop tip, top (in Middle English also head), probably cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf head; see cup
- ThermodynamicsSee coefficient of performance.
Cop., - Copernican.
- ReligionCoptic.
cop., - Chemistrycopper.
- copyright;
copyrighted.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cop /kɒp/ slang n - another name for policeman
- Brit an arrest (esp in the phrase a fair cop)
vb (cops, copping, copped)(transitive)- to seize or catch
- to steal
- Also: cop it to suffer (a punishment): you'll cop a clout if you do that!
- cop it sweet ⇒ Austral slang to accept a penalty without complaint
- to have good fortune
See also cop off, cop outEtymology: 18th Century: (vb) perhaps from obsolete cap to arrest, from Old French caper to seize; sense 1, back formation from copper² cop /kɒp/ n - a conical roll of thread wound on a spindle
- chiefly dialect the top or crest, as of a hill
Etymology: Old English cop, copp top, summit, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old English copp cup cop /kɒp/ n - Brit slang (usually used with a negative) worth or value: that work is not much cop
Etymology: 19th Century: n use of cop1 (in the sense: to catch, hence something caught, something of value) |