"copicide" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, E. J. Montini, \"Prosecuting Mentally Ill Is Insane\", The Arizona Republic, 20 June 1999 (reprinted in the Observer-Reporter, 4 July 1999)",
          "text": "Carrie told a police negotiator she didn't have the nerve to shoot herself. Later, she'd tell psychiatrist Gwen Levitt she was hoping to commit what the police call \"copicide,\" in which a suicidal person gets the police to shoot him or her."
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        "A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her."
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        "(informal) A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her."
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          "ref": "1992 October, “It's getting late”, in Spy",
          "text": "More weird media excretion: Time Warner homey Ice-T can't say enough nice things about the Man, his employer. Time Warner executives were so supportive during his recent difficulties, he says. They were exceptionally supportive of his totally private and personal decision to recall his ode to copicide from record stores.",
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        "The act of killing a police officer."
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        "(informal) The act of killing a police officer."
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          "sense": "suicide by provoking a police officer to shoot",
          "word": "death by cop"
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          "sense": "suicide by provoking a police officer to shoot",
          "word": "suicide by cop"
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  "word": "copicide"
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  "word": "copicide"
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