Cop

Meaning of Cop

noun
  1. a police officer.
    a cop in a patrol car gave chase
  2. shrewdness; practical intelligence.
    he had the cop-on to stay clear of Hugh Thornley
verb
  1. catch or arrest (an offender).
    he was copped for speeding
  2. receive or attain (something welcome).
    she copped an award for her role in the film
  3. strike (an attitude or pose).
    I copped an attitude—I acted real tough

early 18th century (as a verb): perhaps from obsolete cap ‘arrest’, from Old French caper ‘seize’, from Latin capere . The noun is from copper2.

noun

a conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.

late 18th century: possibly from Old English cop ‘summit, top’.

abbreviation, noun

Colombian peso(s).

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Hyphenation of Cop

Cop

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
  • Cop is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Cop synonyms

Meaning bull:

bull, copper, fuzz, pig

Meaning hook:

hook, snitch, thieve, glom

Meaning collar:

collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, nab

Meaning a male member of a police force:

policeman

Meaning a female member of a police force:

policewoman

Meaning a policeman or policewoman:

officer

Meaning a police officer:

constable, kotwal, bobby, rozzer, busy

Meaning a patrolling police officer:

patrolman

Meaning a private soldier in a cavalry or armoured unit:

trooper

Meaning a trader's employee who goes round delivering and taking orders:

roundsman

Meaning a paramilitary police officer in France and other French-speaking countries:

gendarme

Meaning a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected:

jack

Meaning the distinctive clothing worn by members of the same organization or body or by children attending certain schools:

uniform

Meaning a slow, heavy walk:

plod

Meaning carry the weight of; support:

bear

Meaning a person or thing that wallops someone or something:

walloper

Meaning an evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell:

demon

Meaning a data file containing computer animations:

flic

Meaning a condition in which the foot has an arch that is lower than usual:

flatfoot

Meaning a score of one stroke over par at a hole:

bogey

Meaning a flat-heeled shoe:

flattie

Meaning a uniformed policeman:

woodentop

Meaning a knife or device for removing the skin from fruit and vegetables:

peeler

Meaning a person that runs, especially in a specified way:

runner

Meaning a common blowfly with a metallic-blue body, the female of which often comes into houses searching for a suitable food source on which to lay her eggs:

bluebottle

Meaning each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included):

finger

Meaning (chiefly among Rastafarians) a contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of white culture seen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police:

Babylon

Anagrams of Cop

cpo

Words that rhyme with Cop

cop, acop, attercop, supercop, Scop, scop, ophthalmospectroscop

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