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cop it

verb

Definitions

  1. To get into trouble

    To get into trouble; to be punished.

    • "Oh, you'll cop it," said the recruit. "The sergeant has been here twice looking for you."
    • He shook his black, dishevelled hair ominously and said: "You'll cop it for this!"
    • I suppose he must have been all right, because you don't half cop it for killing a soldier.

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