Definitions for COP

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COP cop

Spelling: [kop]

IPA: /kɒp/

Cop is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in COP (cop).

Definitions for COP

noun

1. a police officer.
2. a person who seeks to regulate a specified behavior, activity, practice, etc.:
3. a conical mass of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a spindle.
4. British Dialect. crest; tip.

Idioms

1. 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.

Verb phrases

1. cop out, to avoid one's responsibility, the fulfillment of a promise, etc.; renege; back out (often followed by on or of): cop a plea.

verb (used with object)

1. to catch; nab.
2. to steal; filch.
3. to buy (narcotics).

Origin of COP

1695-1705; compare cap (obsolete) to arrest, Scots cap to seize ≪ dialectal Old French caper to take, ultimately Latin capere

Examples for COP

This was as close as a robot could look to a cop in uniform, without being a joke.

Lucas said that he himself nonetheless hopes to become a cop.

The cop who shot Akai, he should be arrested and reprimanded for what he did.

The other cop had yanked out O'Neill's wallet, and now tossed it to Gordon.

They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.

Nobody ever says they want to become a cop so they can bust people for urinating in public or drinking alcohol on their stoop.

This cop that found me in a hallway, he says I must have been give a dose of Peter.

And the police would be to blame for it all—sending a tin robot to do a cop's job.

Smith attended both funerals as a cop and as the husband of Police Officer Moira Smith, who died on 9/11.

But a robot can't take the place of a cop, it's a complex human job.