cop

verb

/kɒp/UK/kɑp/US/kɔp/

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

derived from kāpia — “to buy”
derived from kapen — “to seize, hijack”
derived from capiō — “to seize, grasp”
derived from caper — “to capture”
inherited from copian — “to plunder; pillage; steal”
inherited from *coppen✻

Definitions

to capture or arrest someone
2
To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to…
To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.
- He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
- Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.
3
To (be forced to) take
To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.
- I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.
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1. To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
2. 5
  To steal.
  - Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine
3. 6
  To adopt.
  - No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
4. 7
  To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
  - I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
  - Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
  - He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter
5. 8
  To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
  - I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.' She laid the bearskin and freaked the joint off with her lights and other crap. Except for the fake stars it was a fair mock-up of her pad where I had copped her.
  - The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.
6. 9
  To take (a look, glance, etc.).
  - Cop an eyeful of this!
7. A police officer or prison guard.
8. A spider.
9. A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
10. A merlon.
11. 14
  A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or…
  A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
  - In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...
  - Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.
12. A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
13. 16
  The top, summit, especially of a hill.
  - Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils
14. Initialism of close of play.
15. Initialism of conference of the parties
  Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.
16. Initialism of common operational picture.
17. Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.
18. Initialism of center of pressure.
19. Initialism of coefficient of performance.
20. Initialism of code of practice.
21. Initialism of community of property.
22. Initialism of cholesterol oxidation product.
23. Abbreviation of ConocoPhillips.
24. 27
  Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”).
  - Rachel Kyte, a former senior World Bank official who is now dean of the Fletcher school at Tufts University in the US, and a close observer of Cops, said the war in Ukraine and the UK’s geopolitical relations were also key reasons to go.

The neighborhood

neighborcheck cop
neighbornot much cop

Derived

cop a feel, cop a load of, cop and blow, cop a plea, cop it, cop off, cop off with, cop on, cop oneself on, cop one's whack, cop onto, cop out, cop-out, copout, cop the bun, cop the needle, copland, copper, copple

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA