cop
$ \mathrm{cop}^1 |käp| informal
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noun
a police officer.
⦅くだけて⦆ お巡り, サツ, 巡査, 警官 (police officer)
verb (cops, copping, copped) with object
1. catch or arrest (an offender):
…をつかまえる
e.g. he was copped for speeding.
incur (something unwelcome):
…を招く
e.g. the team's captain copped most of the blame.
2. receive or obtain (something welcome):
…を手に入れる, 取り入れる
e.g. she copped an award for her role in the film.
US steal:
…を盗む
e.g. he watched her cop a pair of earrings and then nabbed her at the door.
US obtain (an illegal drug):
e.g. he copped some hash for me.
3. North American strike (an attitude or pose):
e.g. I copped an attitude—I acted real tough.
PHRASES
cop a feel
informal fondle someone sexually, especially in a surreptitious way or without their permission.
cop a plea
North American informal engage in plea bargaining.
cop hold of
usually in imperative British informal take hold of:
e.g. cop hold of the suitcase, I'm off.
cop it British informal
1. get into trouble:
e.g. will you cop it from your dad if you get back late?
2. be killed:
e.g. he almost copped it in a horrific accident.
good cop, bad cop
informal used to refer to a police interrogation technique in which one officer feigns a sympathetic or protective attitude while another adopts an aggressive approach:
e.g. they'll bring you into the station and play good cop, bad cop with you
e.g. figurative : a Jekyll and Hyde CEO is good cop, bad cop rolled into one expensive suit.
it's a fair cop
British informal see fair1.
PHRASAL VERBS
cop out
informal avoid doing something that one ought to do:
e.g. he copped out at the last moment.
cop to
US informal accept or admit to:
e.g. there are a lot of people who don't cop to their past.
ORIGIN
early 18th century (as a verb): perhaps from obsolete cap ‘arrest’, from Old French caper ‘seize’, from Latin capere. The noun is from copper2.
$ \mathrm{cop}^2 |käp|
noun
a conical or cylindrical roll of thread wound onto a spindle.
ORIGIN
late 18th century: possibly from Old English cop ‘summit, top’.