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‖ kop|kɒp|
[Afrikaans, f. Du. kop head, cop n.2]
1. S. Afr. A hill. Cf. kopje.
1835C. L. Stretch Jrnl. 1 Apr., The troops..advanced in the direction of T'Slambies Kop, a high point visible from the heights near Graham's Town. 1878H. A. Roche On Trek in Transvaal xiv. 303 One fine Kop or Kopje we passed upon which grazed an immense herd of fine oxen and heifers. 1900A. H. Keane Boer States p. xvii, Kop, a crest, an eminence. 1901L. James in J. Ralph War's Brighter Side 347 The three field batteries then came into action against a high tableland kop which formed the right of the held position. 1932C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek ii. 26 It is east by north of Taikundo Kop. 1939tr. E. N. Marais's My Friends the Baboons i. 74 On one side the kloof was bordered by a krans, two to three hundred feet high, and on the other by a kop so steep that it could almost be called a krans too. 1971Rand Daily Mail (Home Owner Suppl.) 26 June 5 Two of Johannesburg's most famous ‘kops’—Langermann's Kop..and Pullinger Kop.
2. Assoc. Football. (With capital initial.) In full, but now less usu., Spion Kop |ˈspaɪən kɒp|. [f. Spion Kop, Afrikaans name of a hill near Ladysmith in S. Afr., scene of a battle in the Boer War (1899–1902).] A high bank of terracing for standing spectators, orig. and especially the one at Anfield, home ground of Liverpool Football Club, but now of more general U.K. application (see quot. 19742). Also, the spectators themselves, massed on such terracing, and attrib.
1926Liverpool Daily Post 29 May 9/3 At last night's meeting of the Liverpool Football Club an important step was made known... The Club had decided to..concentrate upon improving Spion Kop at the back of the Oakfield-road goal. 1960B. Liddell My Soccer Story vi. 43 All they [sc. the spectators] wanted was the final whistle, so that they could come swarming over the ground from the Kop..and carry us off the field. Ibid. viii. 54 Kicking into our favourite goal, at the Spion Kop end. 1966P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 56 There is in Liverpool a school of indigenous verse—known as the Kop choir, which produces, as it were spontaneously, verses to suit every situation that might occur within the game of football. 1966Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 30 Apr. 1/3 Liverpool went into the lead again in 69 minutes... This set the Kop off again and they gave us pretty well their whole repertoire [of songs and chants]. 1973B. Shankly in News of the World Football Ann. 1973–74 4 For a time it seemed as if the Kop would never stop singing. 1973Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 22 Dec. 1/5 Liverpool immediately resumed the first half pattern of constant attack, this time towards the Kop goal. 1974Times 18 Mar. 10/8 A match of electric energy..ended with the heaving Kop awash with red banners and scarves. 1974Sunday Times 14 Apr. 26/2 What Anfield sings today, other Kops will be singing tomorrow.
So ˈKopite, ˈKoppite, a spectator who frequents the Kop terracing.
1960B. Liddell My Soccer Story viii. 53 He got a tremendous ovation from the generous Koppites at the finish. 1966P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 58 ‘You'll never walk alone,’ the Koppites sing. 1974Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 6 Apr. 16/9 The president of the Cambridge University Boat Club who comes from Birkenhead is also a loyal Kopite. 1974Sunday Times 14 Apr. 26/2 It makes Liverpool Kopites smile..to hear other fans singing their songs. |