Definitions for copping

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copping cop·ping

Spelling: [kop-ing]

IPA: /ˈkɒp ɪŋ/

Copping is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in copping (cginopp).

Definitions for copping

noun

1. the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.

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 copping

First recorded in 1785-95; cop² + -ing¹

Examples for copping

But they's nothing to prevent me from copping down the letter so as you can read what it says and here it is.

Mr. copping was apparently for the time a resident of London, and lived, he believed, somewhere in the Camden Town region.

Yes, Mr. copping had called several times, to make quite sure of everything concerning his friend's comfort.

copping, it was testified, was the writer of this remarkable agreement.

Weve got the jump on the other fellows by copping the first game, said Robson.

copping answered all unconsciously in the words of Lady Macbeth.

The first look that copping sent out was an elegant pencil silhouette for an imaginary woman named Catherine.

Mr. copping seems to like their situation the best of all the rooms I showed him.'

But that's impossible Al but they's nothing to keep me from copping it off.

Mr. copping had much power of self-control, but he did seem to start at this news.