cop
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.
Inflected forms:
form: cops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: copping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: copped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: copped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To capture or arrest someone.
pos: verb
tags: dated
informal
transitive
gloss: To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.
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.
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.
Off the juice, codeine got me trippin' copped the coupe, woke up, roof is missin'...
Uh, copped a BMW, new deposit, I picked up another bag Like fuck it, I'ma count while I'm in it...
Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
gloss: To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.
I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.
You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick
What do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back,
Open the trunk to the nickel-plate 38?
“Wait wait, baby, please!”
That's the shit he's coppin when he’s down on both his knees
I now understand that my dad didn't really have much of a father-son relationship and may have found my behaviour hard to deal with. Maybe that is why I copped a beating.
gloss: To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine
gloss: To adopt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
gloss: To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
usually
examples: I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter
gloss: To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To take (a look, glance, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Cop an eyeful of this!
gloss: A police officer or prison guard.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: cop a feel
cop a load of
cop and blow
cop a plea
cop it
cop off
cop off with
cop on
cop oneself on
cop one's whack
cop onto
cop out
cop-out
copout
cop the bun
cop the needle
copland
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: хва́щам
roman: hváštam
lang: Bulgarian
word: хва́на
roman: hvána
lang: Bulgarian
word: пи́пвам
roman: pípvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: пи́пам
roman: pípam
lang: Bulgarian
word: спи́пвам
roman: spípvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: спи́пам
roman: spípam
lang: Bulgarian
word: ге́пя
roman: gépja
lang: Czech
word: sebrat
lang: Finnish
word: napata
lang: Finnish
word: ottaa
lang: German
word: erlangen
lang: German
word: holen
lang: Greek
word: παίρνω
roman: paírno
lang: Italian
word: afferrare
lang: Italian
word: prendere
lang: Italian
word: catturare
lang: Italian
word: acciuffare
lang: Russian
word: схвати́ть
roman: sxvatítʹ