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"word": "cop off"
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"word": "cop off with"
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"word": "cop on"
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"word": "cop oneself on"
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"word": "cop one's whack"
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"word": "copout"
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"word": "cop the bun"
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"word": "cop the needle"
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"ref": "1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, page 4",
"text": "You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story, page 191",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take."
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"(transitive, formerly dialect, New York, now informal) To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take."
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "napata"
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "ottaa"
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "erlangen"
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "παίρνω"
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "afferrare"
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "prendere"
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "catturare"
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"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "acciuffare"
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"roman": "sxvatítʹ",
"sense": "to capture, to take (informal)",
"word": "схвати́ть"
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"text": "When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 34",
"text": "I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, “Straight Razor”, in Roxanne Shanté (lyrics), The Bitch Is Back",
"text": "You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick\nWhat do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back,\nOpen the trunk to the nickel-plate 38?\n“Wait wait, baby, please!”\nThat's the shit he's coppin when he’s down on both his knees",
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},
{
"ref": "2009, Lee Headington, Relentless, page 5",
"text": "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.",
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"To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing."
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"(transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing."
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"name": "Prostitution",
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"To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time."
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"(transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time."
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"ref": "2017, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell (lyrics and music), “Copycat”, in Don't Smile at Me, performed by Billie Eilish",
"text": "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",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To steal."
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"(transitive) To steal."
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"text": "No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.",
"type": "example"
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"To adopt."
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"(transitive) To adopt."
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{
"text": "I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Harold copped to being known as \"Dirty Harry\".",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Elmore Leonard, Mr. Paradise, page 295",
"text": "He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter",
"type": "quotation"
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"To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing."
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"(intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing."
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"ref": "1967, Iceberg Slim, Pimp, published 2009, page 90",
"text": "I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.'\nShe 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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable."
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"(transitive, slang) Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable."
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{
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"word": "beat cop"
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{
"word": "buddy cop"
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{
"word": "contempt of cop"
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{
"word": "copaganda"
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{
"word": "cop-caller"
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{
"word": "cop car"
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{
"word": "cophouse"
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{
"word": "copicide"
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{
"word": "cop killer"
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{
"word": "cop-killer"
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{
"word": "cop knock"
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{
"word": "copless"
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{
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{
"word": "cops and robbers"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "death by cop"
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{
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{
"word": "fish cop"
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{
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{
"word": "gambler's cop"
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{
"word": "good cop bad cop"
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{
"word": "grammar cop"
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{
"word": "gravel road cop"
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{
"word": "kotong cop"
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{
"word": "language cops"
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{
"word": "mall cop"
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{
"word": "motor cop"
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{
"word": "ninja cop"
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{
"word": "rent-a-cop"
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{
"word": "robocop"
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{
"word": "silent cop"
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{
"word": "spy cop"
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{
"word": "suicide by cop"
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{
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{
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{
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"(informal) A police officer or prison guard."
],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šurṭiyy",
"sense": "police officer",
"word": "شُرْطِيّ"
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{
"code": "be",
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"roman": "mjent",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
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"word": "мент"
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{
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"roman": "bilʹdzjúha",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"offensive"
],
"word": "більдзю́га"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "policaj",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "полицай"
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{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"word": "ченге"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bòfia"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "didaniyisgi",
"sense": "police officer",
"word": "ᏗᏓᏂᏱᏍᎩ"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "police officer",
"word": "條子"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tiáozi",
"sense": "police officer",
"word": "条子"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "polda"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bachař"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "panser"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "police officer",
"tags": [
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"word": "strisser"
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{
"code": "da",
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{
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "police officer",
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
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{
"code": "et",
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"sense": "police officer",
"word": "võmm"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "police officer",
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "police officer",
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "police officer",
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],
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},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "police officer",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "police officer",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "police officer",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "police officer",
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{
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],
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"code": "fr",
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],
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},
{
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"lang": "French",
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],
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},
{
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],
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "police officer",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "police officer",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Gendarm"
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{
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "police officer",
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],
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{
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],
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{
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],
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{
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],
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],
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"code": "el",
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],
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{
"code": "el",
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"code": "el",
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"code": "he",
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"code": "hu",
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"masculine"
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"code": "it",
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],
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "poliziotta"
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"code": "it",
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],
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{
"code": "it",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "it",
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"offensive"
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"offensive"
],
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{
"code": "ja",
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"code": "la",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "police officer",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "police officer",
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"code": "nb",
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],
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],
"word": "purk"
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"code": "pl",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "gliniarz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "police officer",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "pl",
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"offensive"
],
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "police officer",
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"offensive"
],
"word": "menda"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "police officer",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "tira"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "police officer",
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"offensive"
],
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "police officer",
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],
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "legávyj",
"sense": "police officer",
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"offensive"
],
"word": "лега́вый"
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"code": "ru",
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"slang"
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"code": "ru",
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"slang"
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"code": "scn",
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"word": "zaffu"
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"code": "sk",
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],
"word": "poliš"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "police officer",
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],
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"code": "es",
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],
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"code": "es",
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],
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"code": "es",
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"colloquial",
"masculine"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "police officer",
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"word": "мент"
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"code": "vi",
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"code": "yi",
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"ref": "2013, K. J. Parker, The Proof House, Orbit",
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"ref": "2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)",
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"ref": "1992, “Straight Razor”, in Roxanne Shanté (lyrics), The Bitch Is Back",
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"ref": "2017, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell (lyrics and music), “Copycat”, in Don't Smile at Me, performed by Billie Eilish",
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"ref": "2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55",
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"2": "coppe"
},
"expansion": "coppe",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "cop"
},
"expansion": "Old English cop",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "copp"
},
"expansion": "copp",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*kopp"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *kopp",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*kuppaz",
"t": "vault, basin, round object"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gew-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gew-",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "kop"
},
"expansion": "Dutch kop",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Kopf"
},
"expansion": "German Kopf",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cops",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cop (plural cops)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"english": "probably etymologically unrelated to above terms",
"word": "check cop"
},
{
"english": "probably etymologically unrelated to above terms",
"word": "not much cop"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine."
],
"links": [
[
"thread",
"thread"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"crafts",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"The top, summit, especially of a hill."
],
"links": [
[
"top",
"top"
],
[
"summit",
"summit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The crown (of the head); also the head itself."
],
"links": [
[
"crown",
"crown"
],
[
"head",
"head"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White, Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing, page 142",
"text": "[…] 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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, K. J. Parker, The Proof House, Orbit",
"text": "In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "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, page 364",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee."
],
"links": [
[
"dome",
"dome"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A tube or quill upon which silk is wound."
],
"links": [
[
"tube",
"tube"
],
[
"quill",
"quill"
],
[
"silk",
"silk"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Architecture",
"en:Military"
],
"glosses": [
"A merlon."
],
"links": [
[
"architecture",
"architecture"
],
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"merlon",
"merlon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(architecture, military) A merlon."
],
"senseid": [
"en:merlon"
],
"topics": [
"architecture",
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɒp/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kɑp/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kɔp/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒp"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-cop.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/En-au-cop.ogg/En-au-cop.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/En-au-cop.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "cop"
}
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