cop the bun in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cops the bun",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "copping the bun",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "copped the bun",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "copped the bun",
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    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894 June 2, Punch:",
          "text": "But that which \"cops the bun\"\nIs your sound crack about brave Jack,\n\"The Man behind the Gun!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IX, in The Land That Time Forgot:",
          "text": "\"Tell me,\" he demanded, \"how to throw a man over my head and break his neck, for I am going to kill you, and I wish to know this thing before you die.\" Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take the biscuit; to top everything else."
      ],
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          "take the biscuit",
          "take the biscuit"
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        "(rare, dated) To take the biscuit; to top everything else."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "cop the bun"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cops the bun",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "copping the bun",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "copped the bun",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "copped the bun",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
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      "expansion": "cop the bun (third-person singular simple present cops the bun, present participle copping the bun, simple past and past participle copped the bun)",
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "1894 June 2, Punch:",
          "text": "But that which \"cops the bun\"\nIs your sound crack about brave Jack,\n\"The Man behind the Gun!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IX, in The Land That Time Forgot:",
          "text": "\"Tell me,\" he demanded, \"how to throw a man over my head and break his neck, for I am going to kill you, and I wish to know this thing before you die.\" Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take the biscuit; to top everything else."
      ],
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          "take the biscuit",
          "take the biscuit"
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        "(rare, dated) To take the biscuit; to top everything else."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "rare"
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  "word": "cop the bun"
}

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"cop the bun" meaning in English

Verb