"copless" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From cop + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cop|less}} cop + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} copless (not comparable)
  1. Lacking cops; void of police. Tags: not-comparable
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          "text": "It was about two and a half miles from our house to the center of our little village, and by the time I'd finished sluicing across lawns and hydroplaning over the copless streets, I was a single, giant molecule of water as I stepped into the ice cream parlor with the famous name.",
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