cops
Meaning of cops
plural noun
- a police officer.
a cop in a patrol car gave chase
- shrewdness; practical intelligence.
he had the cop-on to stay clear of Hugh Thornley
- catch or arrest (an offender).
he was copped for speeding
- receive or attain (something welcome).
she copped an award for her role in the film
- 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.
plural noun
a conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.
late 18th century: possibly from Old English cop ‘summit, top’.
Information about cops
- The singular form of cops is: cop.
- Languages in which cops is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of cops
cops
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- cops is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cops synonyms
Meaning a male member of a police force:
Meaning a female member of a police force:
Meaning a policeman or policewoman:
Meaning a police officer:
constable, kotwal, bobby, rozzer, busy
Meaning a patrolling police officer:
Meaning a private soldier in a cavalry or armoured unit:
Meaning a trader's employee who goes round delivering and taking orders:
Meaning a paramilitary police officer in France and other French-speaking countries:
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:
Meaning the distinctive clothing worn by members of the same organization or body or by children attending certain schools:
Meaning a red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29:
Meaning a slow, heavy walk:
Meaning carry the weight of; support:
Meaning a person or thing that wallops someone or something:
Meaning an evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell:
Meaning a data file containing computer animations:
Meaning a condition in which the foot has an arch that is lower than usual:
Meaning a score of one stroke over par at a hole:
Meaning a flat-heeled shoe:
Meaning a uniformed policeman:
Meaning an omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat:
Meaning a knife or device for removing the skin from fruit and vegetables:
Meaning a person that runs, especially in a specified way:
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:
Meaning each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included):
Meaning (chiefly among Rastafarians) a contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of white culture seen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police:
Anagrams of cops
Words that rhyme with cops
Phacops, attercops, supercops, Scops, scops
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