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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English coppe, from Old English *coppe, as in ?torcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from Old English copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.

Noun

cop (plural cops)

1. (obsolete) A spider.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capi? (“to seize, to grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, to hijack”), from Old Frisian k?pia (“to buy”). Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

Verb

cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)

1. (transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
   • 1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story (page 191)

     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.

   • 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10:

     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.

2. (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

   When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father

3. (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
4. (transitive) To steal.
5. (transitive) To adopt.

   No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.

6. (transitive) To earn by bad behavior.
7. (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) to admit, especially to a crime.

   I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?

   Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
8. (transitive, slang) For a pimp to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
   • 2009, Iceberg Slim, Pimp (page 90)

     I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.'
     She 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.

   • 2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity (page 55)

     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.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from cop (“one who cops”) above, in reference to arresting criminals.

Noun

cop (plural cops)

1. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English cop, coppe, from Old English cop, copp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gu-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

Noun

cop (plural cops)

1. (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
2. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

   • Cop they use to call / The tops of many hills.

3. (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself. [14th-15th c.]

4. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
6. (architecture, military) A merlon.

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Cop”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

See also

• not much cop

Anagrams

• CPO, OCP, OPC, PCO, POC, PoC

A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *cup

Noun

cop

1. basket

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 20 (2009)

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan colp, from Late Latin colpus (“stroke”), from earlier Latin colaphus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?p/

Noun

cop m (plural cops)

1. hit, blow, strike
2. time, occasion

Alternative forms

• colp (dialectal)

Synonyms

• (time, occasion): vegada, volta

Derived terms

• copejar
• cop de gràcia
• cop baix
• cop d'estat
• cop d'ull
• de cop
• un cop

Further reading

• “cop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cop” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cop” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zopf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?sop]

Noun

cop m

1. braid

Derived terms

• copánek m
• copatý m

Further reading

• cop in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• cop in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

A shortened form of copain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?p/

Noun

cop m (plural cops)

1. (informal) A friend, a pal.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cope, coppe

Etymology

From Old English cop, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?p/

Noun

cop (plural coppes)

1. summit (of a mountain or hill)
2. top, tip, topmost part
3. top of the head, crown
4. head

Descendants

• English: cop
• Scots: cop, coppe
• Yola: kappas (plural)
• ? Welsh: copa

References

• “cop, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-25.

Occitan

Noun

cop m (plural cops)

1. Alternative spelling of còp

Old French

Noun

cop m (oblique plural cos, nominative singular cos, nominative plural cop)

1. Alternative form of colp

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish copp, borrowed from either Old English copp or Middle English copp, both meaning "top," from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??hp/

Noun

cop m (genitive singular coip, plural coip)

1. foam, froth

Derived terms

• copach (“foamy, frothy”)
• cop na mara (“sea foam, spume”)
• copraich (“fizz”, verb)
• cop ri do bheul (“foaming at the mouth”)

Verb

cop (past chop, future copidh, verbal noun copadh, past participle copte)

1. capsize
2. pour out, tip out
3. foam, froth

Mutation

Slovak

Etymology

From German Zopf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?sop]

Noun

cop m (genitive singular copu, nominative plural copy, genitive plural copov, declension pattern of dub)

1. braid

Declension

Synonyms

• vrko?

Derived terms

• copík, cop?ek

Further reading

• cop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Volapük

Noun

cop (nominative plural cops)

1. hoe (tool)

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle English coppe (spider).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?p/

Noun

cop m (plural copynnod or copynnau)

1. (obsolete) spider

   Synonyms: copyn, corryn, pryf cop, pryf copyn

Usage notes

No longer found as an independent word, cop is now used as an element in other words for "spider", such as copyn, pryf cop and pryf copyn and derived terms.

Derived terms

• copyn (“spider”)
• pryf cop (“spider”)
• pryf copyn (“spider”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “cop”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies