"fair cop" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1891, Montagu Stephen Williams, Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams, Q. C., Macmillan and Co.",
          "text": "\"Several other witnesses gave corroborative evidence, and a constable who helped to arrest the prisoners stated that one of them, on being taken into custody, said: 'Ah, well, this is a fair cop.'\"",
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          "ref": "1900, William Pett Ridge, A Breaker of Laws, Harper & Brothers",
          "text": "\"'A fair cop,' murmured Ladd feebly. 'I give in, mister; it's a fair cop.'\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War, Brentano's",
          "text": "No, by thunder! It was not a fair cop. We were four to one.",
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          "ref": "1969 November 23, “Crunchy Frog”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 6",
          "text": "Inspector: I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.\nMr. Hilton: It's a fair cop.",
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          "ref": "1999, Diana Gabaldon, The Outlandish Companion, Delacorte Press",
          "text": "\"Okay, it's a fair cop. Claire's not a Bible scholar, and neither am I. It wasn't Gideon, it was Jephthah (Judges 12).\"",
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        "A justifiable or reasonable capture or apprehension; also, broadly, a just or inescapable accusation."
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  "word": "fair cop"
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          "ref": "1891, Montagu Stephen Williams, Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams, Q. C., Macmillan and Co.",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, William Pett Ridge, A Breaker of Laws, Harper & Brothers",
          "text": "\"'A fair cop,' murmured Ladd feebly. 'I give in, mister; it's a fair cop.'\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "1919, George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War, Brentano's",
          "text": "No, by thunder! It was not a fair cop. We were four to one.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969 November 23, “Crunchy Frog”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 6",
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        "A justifiable or reasonable capture or apprehension; also, broadly, a just or inescapable accusation."
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  "word": "fair cop"
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