Cop Definition
- To fondle someone sexually in a surreptitious way.
- To plead guilty to a lesser charge so as to avoid standing trial for a more serious charge.
- to plead guilty to a criminal charge, esp. so as to get a lighter sentence
- to confess to the police, often implicating another
- to admit or acknowledge
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cop
Origin of Cop
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From Middle English coppe, from Old English *coppe, as in ātorcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from Old English copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gū- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.
From Wiktionary
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Possibly from Middle French capere (“to capture”), from Latin capere (“to seize, to grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to steal”), from West Frisian kāpia (“to take away”), from Old Frisian kapia, to buy.
From Wiktionary
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Old English cop, copp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gu-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.
From Wiktionary
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Probably variant of cap to catch from Old French caper from Latin capere capture
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from cop (“one who cops”) above, i.e. a criminal.
From Wiktionary
Middle English summit from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Short for copper
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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