"cops" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kɒps/ [UK], /kɑps/ [US], /kɔps/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-au-cops.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -ɒps Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} cops
  1. plural of cop Tags: form-of, plural Form of: cop
    Sense id: en-cops-en-noun-Cso9HNIg
  2. (slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity. Tags: slang Translations (law enforcement): vaches (english: cows) [feminine, plural] (French), bœufs (english: oxen) [Canada, masculine, plural] (French), chiens [Canada, masculine, plural] [dogs, pets, lifestyle] (French), vandames [masculine, plural] (French), cognes (english: the beat) [masculine, plural] (French), cakes (english: the cakes) [masculine, plural] (French), Bullen [feminine, plural] (German), gliny [masculine, plural] (Polish), psy [masculine, plural] (Polish), tiras [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), bófia [feminine] (Portuguese), aynasızlar [plural] (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-cops-en-noun-ej0VqCLP Disambiguation of 'law enforcement': 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /kɒps/ [UK], /kɑps/ [US], /kɔps/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-au-cops.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -ɒps Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} cops
  1. (UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-cops-en-noun-4dmtOPSS Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /kɒps/ [UK], /kɑps/ [US], /kɔps/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-au-cops.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -ɒps Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} cops
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cop Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: cop
    Sense id: en-cops-en-verb-W7ENmuSa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 32 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.