Cop definition
An example of cop is to take a person's bike without asking.
A show that copped four awards; copped a ticket to the game.
An example of a cop is thread round around a spindle in a cone shape.
An example of a cop is a person who gives traffic tickets.
When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.
I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
- To fondle someone sexually in a surreptitious way.
- To plead guilty to a lesser charge so as to avoid standing trial for a more serious charge.
- to plead guilty to a criminal charge, esp. so as to get a lighter sentence
- to confess to the police, often implicating another
- to admit or acknowledge
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of cop
- Probably variant of cap to catch from Old French caper from Latin capere capture
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English summit from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Short for copper
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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.
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From Wiktionary
- Old English cop, copp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gu-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.
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- Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from cop (“one who cops”) above, i.e. a criminal.
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