cop n : uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: bull, copper, fuzz, pig]

1 take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, knock off, glom]

2 take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" [syn: collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab] [also: copping, copped]

English

Pronunciation

• /kɒp/

  Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From and capere.

Verb

1. To capture, get hold of, take.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• cop a feel
• cop off
• cop on
• cop out, cop-out

Etymology 2

Short for copper, itself from cop above, i.e. a criminal. Sometimes explained as deriving from copper buttons or badges of early NYPD uniforms, though this is often stated to be a folk etymology.

Noun

1. slang law enforcement A police officer.

Translations

Etymology 3

lang=ang, copp, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

Noun

1. In the context of "crafts": The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
2. The top, summit, especially of a hill.
3. The head.

Etymology 4

Verb

1. to admit, especially to a crime.

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

2. to receive, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

Catalan

Noun

cop

1. hit

Czech

Etymology

German Zopf

Noun

1. braid

Derived terms

• copánek

French

Etymology

A shortened form of copain.

Pronunciation

• [kɔp]

Noun

fr-noun m

1. A friend, a pal.

Slovak

Noun

cop , copy p

cop stem

declension pattern

1. braid

A cop is a police officer.

Cop or Cops may refer to:

Organizations

• Conference of Parties (COP) of United Nations Conventions, see Convention on Biological Diversity, for example
• Olympic Committee of Portugal (COP in Portugese), Olympic Committee of Portugal
• ConocoPhillips, with COP as its stock symbol
• Council of Presidents, the executive leadership board of the Vermont State Colleges
• Congress of the People (Trinidad and Tobago), a political party in Trinidad and Tobago
• Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union, often referred to as "COPS" from the French acronym for "Comité politique et de sécurité".
• Communities Organized for Public Service, a San Antonio, Texas community organization
• Community Oriented Policing Services, a program under the US Department of Justice
• Centralized Operations Police Suite, an online US Army Military Police reporting system
• Committee of Public Safety, governmental organization that reigned during the most excessive and violent period of the French Revolution

Places

• Canada Olympic Park, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Centralny Okreg Przemyslowy, Central Industrial Region, Poland

Science

• Center of pressure, the point on a body where the sum total of the aerodynamic pressure field acts
• Colloid osmotic pressure, exerted by proteins in blood plasma that normally tends to pull water into the circulatory system
• Coefficient of performance, in thermodynamics, the ratio of the output heat of a pump to the supplied work
• Coatomer protein, a transport protein involved in vesicular transportation between rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus

Computer science

• C Object Processor (COP), a superset of the C programming language
• Common Operational Picture, a display of relevant troops position and status shared by military commanders
• Computer Operating Properly, in embedded systems
• COPS (software) or Computer Oracle and Password System, a UNIX system security checking package
• Common Open Policy Service, a policy-based network management protocol

Entertainment

• Cop (film), a 1988 thriller film
• Cops (film), a short film directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
• COPS (TV series), a long-running reality show on the Fox Network
• C.O.P.S. (animated TV series), the animated series based on the toy line
• The Cops (TV series), a British television drama series
• The Cops (US band), an American band
• The Cops (band), an Australian garage rock band who released their debut album Stomp on Tripwires in 2004* Cop (album), the second album by New York band Swans
• Alkaline Trio song from their 1998 album Goddamnit''
• C.O.P.S 'N' Crooks (C.O.P.S.), a line of action figures that spawned brief comic and animated television series

Miscellanea

• Commissioner of police, the title of the chief officer of many law enforcement agencies
• Chief of police, the title typically given to the head of a police department, particularly in North America
• Community oriented policing, a policing strategy utilizing community interaction to control crime
• Colombian peso, whose ISO 4217 code is COP
• Copper State Air Service, a United States airline whose ICAO airline designator is COP
• Code of Points, a gymnastics scoring regulation
• Community of practice, a collaborative method of social learning
• A component in some place names, e.g. Mow Cop, from the old word for "head"
• Catch, as a slang term for the verb
• Steal
• Cost of products sold, the expense incurred by a company to sell a product
• Communities of practice groups in which social learning takes place
• change order proposals

See also

• Cop out
• Copse, a small lowland woodland

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