cop

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɑp

From Middle English coppe, from Old English *coppe, as in ātorcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from Old English copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gū- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.

cop (plural cops)

1. (obsolete) A spider.

Uncertain. Perhaps from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, to grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, to hijack”), from West Frisian kapia (“to take away”), from Old Frisian kapia (“to buy”). Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)

1. (transitive, formerly dialectal, now informal) To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
   • 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10:

     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.

2. (transitive) 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

3. (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
4. (transitive) To steal.
5. (transitive) To adopt.

   No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.

6. (transitive) To earn by bad behavior.
   • 1992, Roxanne Shanté (lyrics), “Straight Razor”, in The Bitch Is Back:

     You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick
     What do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back,
     Open the trunk to the nickel-plate 38?
     “Wait wait, baby, please!”
     That's the shit he's coppin when he’s down on both his knees

7. (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) to admit, especially to a crime.

   I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?

   Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".

   • 2005, Elmore Leonard, Mr. Paradise, page 295:

     He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter

Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from cop (“one who cops”) above, in reference to arresting criminals.

cop (plural cops)

1. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.

• See also Thesaurus:police officer

• cophouse
• cop shop

From Middle English cop, coppe, from Old English cop, copp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gu-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

cop (plural cops)

1. (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
2. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
   • Drayton

     Cop they used to call / The tops of many hills.

3. (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself. [14th-15th c.]

   The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.

4. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
5. (architecture, military) A merlon.

• “Cop” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.

• not much cop

• CPO, OCP, OPC, PCO, POC, PoC

From Old Catalan colp, from Late Latin colpus (“stroke”), from earlier Latin colaphus.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔp/

cop m (plural cops)

1. hit, blow, strike
2. time, occasion

• colp (dialectal)

• (time, occasion): vegada, volta

• copejar
• cop de gràcia
• cop baix
• cop d'estat
• un cop

• “cop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cop” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cop” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from German Zopf.

cop m

1. braid

• copánek m
• copatý m

A shortened form of copain.

• IPA^(key): /kɔp/

cop m (plural cops)

1. (informal) A friend, a pal.

• cope, coppe

From Old English cop, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

• IPA^(key): /kɔp/

cop (plural coppes)

1. summit (of a mountain or hill)
2. top, tip, topmost part
3. top of the head, crown
4. head

• English: cop
• Scots: cop, coppe

• “cop (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-25.

cop m (oblique plural cos, nominative singular cos, nominative plural cop)

1. Alternative form of colp

From German Zopf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔp/

cop m (genitive singular copu, nominative plural copy, genitive plural copov, declension pattern of dub)

1. braid

• vrkoč

• copík, copček

• cop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

cop (plural cops)

1. hoe (tool)