cop

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


cop

(historical) former dry measure (compare English cup)

upper part of a tree trunk (where the branches grow from)

(fishing) catch bag (bag for holding caught fish, attached to a net)

Per GDLC, possibly from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom, lap; fabric fold; pocket”), with influence from copa (“cup”). First attested in 1324. In some senses (e.g. "snowflake"), influenced by Spanish copo (“flake”).


cop

Also, in a fashion similar to recycled paper, [they] polished or directly copied others' derivative work such as “to speak of this” [a meme] or images by 9gag, creating “twice derivative work”.

waan⁴ jau⁵, zoeng⁶ zoi³ zou⁶ zi² bun¹, zik⁶ zip³ zoeng¹ “gong² ni¹ di¹”, gau² gek¹ tou⁴ dang², bit⁶ jan⁴ dik¹ ji⁶ ci³ cong³ zok³ gaa¹ gung¹ waak⁶ “ziu³ kop¹”, zoi³ zou⁶ sing⁴ “saam¹ ci³ cong³ zok³”.

還有，像再造紙般，直接將「講呢d」、9gag圖等，別人的二次創作加工或「照cop」，再造成「三次創作」。

还有，像再造纸般，直接将「讲呢d」、9gag图等，别人的二次创作加工或「照cop」，再造成「三次创作」。

2022 January 14, “COLLAR新歌驚現亞視《百萬富翁》廠景 網民好奇問：原來仲未拆”, in 新假期:

Netizens said outspokenly: “There's a small section in the chorus that simply directly copies River by AKB48”.

mong⁵ man⁴ zik⁶ jin⁴: “fu³ go¹ jau⁵ jat¹ dyun⁶ zai² zik⁶ tau⁴ ziu³ kop¹ ei¹ kei¹ bi¹ sau² river”.

網民直言：「副歌有一段仔直頭照cop akb首river」。

网民直言：「副歌有一段仔直头照cop akb首river」。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to copy; to plagiarise


cop

cop (nominative singular)
copy (nominative plural)
copu (genitive singular)
copů (genitive plural)
copu (dative singular)
copům (dative plural)
cop (accusative singular)
copy (accusative plural)
cope (singular vocative)
copy (plural vocative)
copu (locative singular)
copech (locative plural)
copem (instrumental singular)
copy (instrumental plural)


cop

You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.

1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 4:

He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.

1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story, page 191:

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.

2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10:

Off the juice, codeine got me trippin' copped the coupe, woke up, roof is missin'...

2020, Internet Money, Gunna, Don Toliver (lyrics and music), “Lemonade”, in B4 The Storm ft. NAV:

Uh, copped a BMW, new deposit, I picked up another bag Like fuck it, I'ma count while I'm in it...

2021, Polo G (lyrics and music), “RAPSTAR”, in Einer Bankz : Synco (music), Hall of Fame:

Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.

2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):

(transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.

When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.

I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 34:

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

1992, “Straight Razor”, in Roxanne Shanté (lyrics), The Bitch Is Back:

I now understand that my dad didn't really have much of a father-son relationship and may have found my behaviour hard to deal with. Maybe that is why I copped a beating.

2009, Lee Headington, Relentless, page 5:

(transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

(transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine

2017, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell (lyrics and music), “Copycat”, in Don't Smile at Me, performed by Billie Eilish:

No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.

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

Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".

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

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

(intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.'
She laid the bearskin and freaked the joint off with her lights and other crap. Except for the fake stars it was a fair mock-up of her pad where I had copped her.

1967, Iceberg Slim, Pimp, published 2009, page 90:

The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.

2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55:

(transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.

en-verb

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

cops (present singular third-person)
copping (participle present)
copped (participle past)
copped (past)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koope. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.


cop

(informal) A police officer or prison guard.

Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from the verb cop (“to lay hold of”) above, in reference to arresting criminals.


cop

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


cop

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

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

1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

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

(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

[…] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.

2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White, Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 142:

In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...

2013, K. J. Parker, The Proof House, Orbit, →ISBN:

Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.

2013, George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 364:

A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

check cop

probably etymologically unrelated to above terms

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


cop

Tu travailles avec les cops de Gatineau ?

(North America, informal) cop (police officer)

* (cop): Borrowed from English cop.
* (friend): Clipping of copain.


cop

coppes (plural)
cope (alternative)
coppe (alternative)

English: cop

Scots: cop, coppe

Yola: kappas (plural)

→ Welsh: copa

From Old English cop, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp.


cop

fro-noun

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

cop oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cos (oblique plural)
cos (nominative singular)
cop (nominative plural)


cop

head

cop m (genitive singular coip, plural coip)

From Middle Irish copp, borrowed from either Old English copp or Middle English copp, both meaning "top," from Proto-West Germanic *kopp.


cop

cop (past chop, future copidh, verbal noun copadh, past participle copte)

chop (past)
copidh (future)
copadh (noun-from-verb)
copte (participle past)
cop
chop


cop

sk-noun

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

copu (genitive singular)
copy (nominative plural)
copov (genitive plural)
dub (declension-pattern-of)
nominative
cop (singular)
copy (plural)
genitive
copu (singular)
copov (plural)
dative
copom (plural)
accusative
locative
cope (singular)
copoch (plural)
instrumental
copom (singular)
copmi (plural)


cop

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Coptic.


cop

cops (nominative plural)
cop (nominative singular)
cops (nominative plural)
copa (genitive singular)
copas (genitive plural)
cope (dative singular)
copes (dative plural)
copi (accusative singular)
copis (accusative plural)
o cop! (singular vocative)
o cops! (plural vocative)
copu (predicative singular)
copus (plural predicative)


cop

copynnod (plural)
copynnau (plural)
cop
gop (soft)
nghop
chop

From Middle English coppe (spider), from Old English copp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, orb”).