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nounPlural cops kɒpkɑp informal 1A police officer. a cop in a patrol car gave chase Example sentencesExamples - Three cops sat on the table next to it, watching him.
- It reminds me of how on a certain Illinois highway, the cops would park a patrol car in a visible area on the side of the road.
- What was the compelling news value of the news helicopter's pursuit of the car after cops broke off their chase?
- As of this morning, the area around the Japanese embassy is still heavily policed by regular cops and Armed Police with riot gear.
- They had all been pestered by the police before, of course, but what teenage boy hadn't pulled some stupid stunt to get the cops on there backs?
- He dodged the cops by monitoring police scanners to spy on the very people who were tracking him.
- There are so many cops on the streets it seems logical that this would've happened eventually.
- I spent most of my career as a prosecutor trying to weed out cops like this.
- But there is nothing to say that cops can't monitor people while obscured by alleyway shadows.
- Many residents, say group members, pleaded with the cops to crack down on the drug dealers long before the recent shootings.
- Jerry Vick I think probably was the most effective vice cop I've ever seen.
- Perhaps we need some courtesy cops on the motorways today.
- I felt sorry for the shivering cops out there, it wasn't their idea to shut things down, I guess.
- Finally, when he wouldn't be convinced by simple police reports, the cops let him see the evidence.
- So what's an ordinary citizen, or cop or government official to do with that in mind?
- The public really do feel reassured when they see cops out on the streets.
- Sam had almost killed the cops for not having patrol cars all around.
- So, why not allow cops to take a DNA sample from criminal suspects?
- In this photo, the man who always boasted that cops could never infiltrate his gang was actually posing with several undercover agents.
- This was roundly contradicted by the top cop responsible for traffic policing.
Synonyms policeman, policewoman, officer of the law, law enforcement agent, law enforcement officer, officer police officer, policeman, policewoman, officer of the law, law-enforcement agent, law-enforcement officer, officer 2also cop-onIrish mass noun Shrewdness; practical intelligence. he had the cop-on to stay clear of Hugh Thornley Example sentencesExamples - It's a shame to see they still haven't had the cop-on to sort out the ticketing system.
- For a professional footballer, any footballer for that matter, to admit that he waited over three years to pay an opponent back for standing over him and sneering, to me, shows a lack of basic cop-on.
- The time has come for a large dose of cop-on to be delivered.
- Its cop-on factor is higher than many other listening posts sourced from around Ireland.
- Basic cop-on tells us that if our teachers are paid less than our second hand car salesmen, we will ultimately be left with stupid kids driving fast cars.
verbcops, copped, copping kɒpkɑp [with object]informal 1Catch or arrest (an offender) he was copped for speeding Example sentencesExamples - If they get caught and copped, if they get nicked and weighed-off, fair enough.
- 1.1 Incur (something unwelcome)
England's captain copped most of the blame an easy journey, if we don't cop any rough weather Example sentencesExamples - We'd been through a really tough week in Dublin so, to be honest, we expected to cop some backlash.
- I've copped my fair share of nicks and cuts, but they haven't been serious wounds.
- He copped a lot of criticism, which is not nice for anybody to take.
- They know that whether or not they turn up to court, the result is probably going to be about the same, they're probably going to be found guilty and they're probably going to cop a fine.
- Your investment can produce top-quality diving no matter what the weather - and we copped the hurricane.
- We are going to cop flak from everywhere, but we are used to that.
- By putting in place inexperienced senior police who had never copped the odd punch in the mouth or broken nose in the line of duty, the police force hung the community and the local police out to dry.
- Convict captain Ricky Ponting copped one through the visor of his helmet that laid his cheek open.
- I think I must be setting some kind of a record for the number of bans incurred and also the speed at which I cop them.
- If a person is caught traveling above the average speed they will cop multiple fines and lose several more points.
- Instead, the research suggests that because of the runaway housing market, many families with modest incomes' one big asset - their house - could end up copping inheritance tax at 40%.
- He cops a boot for his troubles though, and - with his left eye bleeding - is still down getting treatment.
- The English media thinks they're team's copping a raw deal from the Australian media this week.
- Let the government cop the political flak for spending taxpayers' money on this instead of heart operations.
- His leader Don Bash copped a broadside from one respondent who described him as ‘a wimp.’
- Then there were the subsequent occasions I was unfortunate enough to cop an earful.
- I'm not going to claim it as fact, but there's a widely held belief amongst many that the union movement cops an unjust and unfair hiding in the mainstream press.
- If you haven't yet copped an earful, start here - they are only getting better with age.
- It's a ferocious and demanding sport and it takes a very special sort of bloke to put their body on their line, but it takes an even more courageous and humble man to go into a game knowing his team is about to cop a flogging.
- The list is culled from the letters received by fixed-penalty units in which motorists attempt to extricate themselves from copping a fine for speeding.
- 1.2cop itBritish Get into trouble.
will you cop it from your dad if you get back late? Example sentencesExamples - It has so much to offer as the home of cricket, and though we cop it on the boundary, it's a fantastic crowd and a great place to play cricket.
- We all had a great laugh watching Cathy and Boyd cop it in Parliament.
- The more we say the more he tends to cop it on the field, so let's just say we're delighted to see him back.
- ‘It's disappointing when you're trying your absolute best and hardest and you're copping it from your home crowd,’ he said.
- This went on for a number of months with one poor bloke copping it worse than anyone.
- Mind you, managers are always going to cop it from the press.
- They sense the little people are disproportionately copping it again.
- We were 2-4 early in the season, and copping it from everywhere.
- You know, obviously the troops were the ones who copped it most.
- Ray Graham copped it a lot worse than the rest of us.
- And the farmers are just absolutely copping it in the neck, as of course are the consumers, as we've continued to pay our 11 cents-a-litre level for the past three years, and we've got another five years to go.
- You were copping it from left, right and centre.
- Sometimes the boyfriends cops it, but that's usually because its his fault.
- It was other farmers, sloppy ones that weren't as careful as Dad; they were the ones who copped it.
- What a difference three years makes, Johnny copped it big time.
- Some of the boys thought they were copping it in the press and some had difficulty with that.
- I am copping it large from all my mates for being the biggest loser of all time,’ writes Michael Johns, who - being a big loser - secretly loves all the attention he's getting.
- The blokes are copping it from all sides, even ones that are at other clubs… the wives, the girlfriends, even their dads are putting the heat on.
- Lately he has been copping it for calling on Europe to reduce it's health standard for food products (can you believe it) in order to make it easier for developing countries to get into the market.
- For the whole first part of the season we have been copping it from every team.
- 1.3cop itBritish Be killed.
he almost copped it in a horrific accident Example sentencesExamples - However, the gang is double crossed, one of their number cops it, the gold is stolen by said double-crosser, and generally it all goes belly up for Croker and the gang.
- You drink yourself stupid, doing whatever self - abuse it is you want to do, because you don't really believe you're going to cop it.
- Since then - every six months or so - another big name or another industry cops it.
- Does this mean Mary Jane is going to cop it in the first movie?
- And these things stay with you the rest of your life. I nearly copped it too, but was saved on several occasions by my buddies, and I, in turn, was given a chance to save their skins also.
- Its one redeeming feature is Kevin Costner as a bad guy who cops it.
- I guess that's what happens when you have nearly copped it.
2Receive or attain (something welcome) she copped an award for her role in the film Example sentencesExamples - Besides, even if you were to cop that kiss, you would not magically get A's or stop daydreaming.
- In the States, his choreography copped a Bessie award - given for contemporary dance and dance theater.
- One of its distinguished principals, designer Peter Minshall, copped this country's first Grammy Award, albeit for work done abroad.
- Williams also copped the award for Academic Excellence and subject prizes for Biology and French.
- He copped several A-level awards, including best all round student.
- He was the top sprinter at the recent National Championships and copped the MVP award.
- It was her second Juno, following the Best Female Newcomer award she copped in 2001.
- On February 20, it copped the audience award for best feature film at the Belize Film Festival.
- Some of us have been watching television all our lives without copping an England team victory in a global event and without seriously suspecting we ever would.
- With the increased risk of being caught, people no longer dared either to cop a free ride or to carry a weapon.
- He copped the award for the Most Outstanding Academic Performance, while Jeremiah Bishop received the Principal's Spirit Award.
- New Park's players copped the other awards.
- 2.1US Obtain (an illegal drug)
he copped some hash for me Example sentencesExamples - I knew about three or four places to cop, all in the immediate area.
- Social Security checks, welfare checks, and food stamp pickups (food stamp trading for drugs and other items) change street activities and copping frequency.
- Teresa, a 24-year-old crack user, found copping drugs was the major source of fights.
- After copping, they may then not be able to obtain new syringes because local pharmacies and needle exchange services may be closed or far away.
- I really wanted to get high because I was very really stressed out, and something about having the Feds sit outside my apartment kept me from copping any drugs.
- Dude is driving around town on his souped-up cycle, copping cannabis and picking up chicks.
- I went and copped some dope, then got on a methadone program.
3North American Strike (an attitude or pose) I copped an attitude—I acted real tough Example sentencesExamples - It's just that Valentine's been copping a lot of attitude lately and that's totally unlike him.
- But if it approves this issue without sending it out to referendum, it's copping an elitist attitude with the snootiest of them.
- Don't like it when someone else cops the attitude you usually reserve for yourself?
- Someone who comes off as arrogant and cops a holier-than-thou attitude should be booed.
- ‘It's pretty easy,’ April says, copping an easy-going attitude and ruining any hopes of juicy controversy.
- The kid started copping an attitude with me, like I had complained on him or something, going so far as flipping me off a couple times as he and one of his mouth-breather chums pulled away in a car.
- Alas, I had been copping a generally arrogant attitude since hitting the water despite an almost complete lack of skills and now I was going to pay for it.
- Of course, a player tends to cop this type of attitude when he knows his days with his current employer are numbered.
- They get paid millions to cop an attitude and are allowed to fail to deliver the goods on the field, court, or what have you.
- But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star.
- Early on, I expect I saw more influences than there really were, just assuming that if anyone was doing anything remotely similar, they musta been copping it from us, but I got over that reasonably fast.
- She was copping this attitude, an annoying attitude, and I shook my head, grabbing the beer from beside her and opening it up, taking a huge gulp.
Phrases informal Fondle someone sexually, especially in a surreptitious way or without their permission. Example sentencesExamples - I feel like I just shelled out a couple hundred bucks for dinner for two at a nice restaurant, but didn't even get to cop a feel.
- Despite their stuck-in-high-school doofiness, they were loyal friends who tried to do right by the girls, even as they were trying to cop a feel.
- The liquor is talking to them and they try to cop a feel.
- People in Cornwall will be parading about in horse costumes trying to cop a feel of the local farmer's daughter.
- And don't you dare cop a feel in the back seat of my car.
- If he tries anything funny, like lifting up her skirt to cop a feel, he gets his hand slapped.
- He's hit on me all night, tried cop a feel, and refused to back off.
- Don't tell me you tried to cop a feel or something.
- You wouldn't believe how many guys try to cop a feel, or jump on stage and try to molest me.
- Morris copped a feel again this afternoon, shoved his hand right down my uniform.
- ‘What a get up,’ he added, copping a feel of Lynn's well outlined derrière.
- As I sauntered down the beach on the prowl for a passed out girl that I could cop a feel from, I spied a raggedy looking tent that was selling strange looking wares.
- But not even an Italian will cop a feel and then try to get away with a lame: ‘I was just being friendly.’
- He thinks it's a good thing that I keep staring at him, but really I'm just afraid he's going to try to cop a feel while I'm not looking.
- Then she tried dating, concluding from one adolescent's attempt to cop a feel that all men go about this, no matter what their age.
- But I know it was probably him trying to cop a feel.
informal usually in imperativeTake hold of. cop hold of the suitcase, I'm off Example sentencesExamples - Dad sprung from his chair like greased lightning, copped hold of the impudent young whippersnapper and bent him over his knee for a ceremonial thrashing.
- ‘Well, aren't you in for a surprise then, here cop hold of this’, and I handed him a mug of ‘coffee’ liberally laced with what the girl had given me.
- Don't get me wrong, there's some pretty stirring stuff - much like we'd have from Mars Volta if they ever copped hold of a bunch of Coldplay records - but what the rich, fluid tones gain in consistency, they lose in relief.
- I've only time for a short review, so my tip is cop hold of ‘Independently Blue’, lie back and relax.
- During a game of the sophisticated ‘spin the bottle’, she copped hold of Pete.
informal Accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation without complaint. he didn't even have the grace to cop it sweet Example sentencesExamples - The so-called racialised other is expected to cop it sweet.
- If you can't stomach sneaky and malevolent payback, cop it sweet or get another job.
- They have been caught lying, but even then, they won't cop it sweet.
- They will do what they have to do to get through these days: cop it sweet, keep the head down and the mouth shut.
- If that does transpire to be truly the case, I suppose I'll just have to cop it sweet.
- Tell all the whingeing people to cop it sweet, and when they go home to wherever they can continue to whinge to whoever will listen.
- If I've done anything wrong, I'll cop it sweet.
- If she has breached the Privacy Act, we hope that she cops it sweet, because the majority of New Zealanders won't care a dot.
- If he got away with it on the field, I'll cop it sweet.
- She will grumble about on- and off-field issues but, in the end, will cop it sweet.
informal Engage in plea bargaining. Example sentencesExamples - To encourage the defendant to cop a plea, some reduction in the charge is usually offered.
- In Germany, meanwhile, an accused MP cops a plea, or plans to anyway.
- Until today that is, when he copped a plea in U.S. District Court in Concord.
- The nine defendants, advised by their lawyers to cop a plea of guilty in return for ‘lighter’ prison sentences, mounted their own defence and were eventually acquitted of the charges by an all white jury.
- When common criminals are allowed to cop a plea, they plead guilty first as part of the bargain.
- Anybody else in this industry would have already copped a plea, and that's just what the government wants.
- You can defend yourself against an indictment or you can cop a plea.
- I think they were trying to get the defense to cop a plea in that case.
- Let's say I walked after copping a plea to obstruction of justice.
- Leon had copped a plea of guilty for solicitation and accepted the penalty of time served - a charge for which he had previously done real time.
they say he's not much cop as a coach Example sentencesExamples - If, equally, it happens that the football is not much cop, the choice between being penned up like a foot and mouth victim or sitting in reasonable comfort is not hard to make.
- But despite my suspicions that he's not much cop, you can't judge him at Leeds at the moment.
- Sean Penn admits he's not much cop at reading bedtime stories to his children.
- For politicians who have come to realise that the state is not much cop at either capital funding or operations, this should be a godsend.
- The other problem with the translation is that at times it is just really not much cop.
- Were they just not much cop, then, or have I missed something here?
- But listening to him perform a new song on a recent tour, a more likely reason for his years without a record deal presents itself: that, really, he's just not much cop any more.
- It's great for a temporal cleansing and balancing of the self, but it's not much cop for actual space clearing of persistent presences.
- Most are not much cop, but without them you wouldn't have that gem you stumbled upon last week.
- Honestly it's not the style, I just think that in their genre they're not much cop whereas Kelly and the MGM arrangers were at the top of their game.
informal Used to refer to a police interrogation technique in which one officer feigns a sympathetic or protective attitude while another adopts an aggressive approach. questioners often play good cop, bad cop figurative the prime minister and chancellor were involved in a classic good cop, bad cop routine Example sentencesExamples - Playing good cop, bad cop, they alternated sweetness and challenge.
- The translator should not be used in a "good cop, bad cop" role.
- But to me, his own piece really hangs together with that of the Post in sort of a twisted "good cop, bad cop" kind of thing.
- Before, the administration seemed to want it to do kind of a good cop, bad cop with Arafat.
- The reaction of England management was interesting, almost on the lines of good cop, bad cop.
- Mr Mills claimed that two prosecutors, playing " good cop, bad cop ", had put the words into his mouth.
- Viewed from Tehran, the west is playing a classic game of good cop, bad cop.
- It seems they play good cop, bad cop out on the training pitch.
- We should play good cop, bad cop with him.
- Now, don't play good cop, bad cop with me.
Phrasal Verbs everyone drinks as much as they can and cops off with anyone who's free Example sentencesExamples - And you never know, there was always a chance that the girl you'd always fancied copping off with might have suddenly noticed you exist over the holiday period.
- I hadn't invited Dave to our own party because he always disgraces himself, tries to cop off with everyone and anyone, and then vomits in the flowerbeds.
- Our guess is that it wasn't until he saw her nearly naked that he recognised who he'd been trying to cop off with.
- Like he'd spotted his bird at a party copping off with someone else.
- I know it's so one can cop off and all that, but I just had to write and tell you.
- When I explained my view recently, I was asked ‘didn't you cop off when you were younger?’
- Then one day I found out she'd been copping off with Pete Simmonds all that time. I can't say I was surprised - I wasn't much of a boyfriend.
- The foods contained in the bags will probably only be consumed should the male student cop off in his first week and invite the female back to his place where she will discover all the goodies and proceed to prepare them all.
- About 13 or 14 years ago, I copped off at a friend's party with a really cute bloke.
1Become aware of something. she never copped on—you've no idea of the guilt I went through Example sentencesExamples - The bad news for him is that others have copped on to his game.
- ‘I didn't think he was serious at first, but then I copped on I said I'd let him sweat it out for a minute,’ the thrilled bride-to-be joked afterwards.
- It also copped on to the fact that real global power is measured by how far you can project that power.
- ‘There has been a rise in applications because parents are copping on that without them pushing for the help their children need, nobody will look out for them,’ she said.
- Eventually the Romans copped on to the unifying power of currency and circulated their coins widely throughout the empire.
- 1.1as imperativeUsed as a way of telling someone not to be so stupid.
ah, cop on, I was only messin'
Avoid doing something that one ought to do. he would not cop out of the difficult tax decisions Example sentencesExamples - Somehow these Globe directors and designers seem to have gotten it into their heads that it is copping out to design costumes that are appropriate for the characters!
- And, without giving anything away, Lucas totally cops out of the one truly disturbing moment the movie could have had.
- There's always the possibility that whatever enticing visions the Bush team puts forward, the Americans will just find them too hard to implement, and will end up copping out.
- And yes, I am also copping out of writing an entry to wrap this year up.
- Ultimately, the plot cops out and an easy solution is pasted on to avoid confusion.
- Don't cop out by claiming that you're trying to reach all readers.
- So he cops out on charitable donations and still tries to fight in the name of ‘the greater good?’
- Despite its weaknesses, it never drags and by the end ties up the plot quite satisfactorily without copping out.
- Rather than face criticism, Fisk cops out by vilifying his critics as ‘haters’ who indulge in right-wing demagoguery.
- Originally, I was going to cop out of this with a joke answer.
Synonyms avoid, shirk, skip, dodge, sidestep, skirt round, bypass, steer clear of, evade, escape, run away from, shrink from, slide out of, back out of, pull out of, turn one's back on informal duck, duck out of, wriggle out of, get out of British informal skive, skive off, funk North American informal cut Australian/New Zealand informal duck-shove archaic decline, bilk
there are a lot of people in the world who don't cop to their past Example sentencesExamples - This is a case of sloppy staff work in Brown's office and not much more - but it's still a screw-up, which explains why Brown's office immediately copped to the miscue.
- But no, Jude Law raised his hands and copped to it.
- They saw magazine executives under oath in a celebrity trial copping to fraudulent circulation figures.
- Williams quickly copped to having had a conflict of interest and apologized for his ‘bad judgment.’
- Disrespecting the Bing basically meant copping to an insignificant offense in order to avoid taking responsibility for, or admitting to, a far graver one.
- But she always finds others to castigate for their immorality and selfishness, rarely copping to what she would call a decadent lifestyle if another woman lived it.
- She has the tone of a recovering alcoholic copping to past bad behavior.
- His name as a performer and a producer is synonymous with ‘do it yourself’ and ‘low fidelity’, whether he'll cop to it or not.
- Okay, so what he is basically copping to is a complete abdication of his Congressional responsibilities, a failure to uphold his oath, and a seeming lack of knowledge regarding our Constitution.
- By now I'm used to admitting error on a fairly regular basis - but I'm not copping to this one.
Origin Early 18th century (as a verb): perhaps from obsolete cap 'arrest', from Old French caper 'seize', from Latin capere. The noun is from copper2. copper from Old English: The verb cop (early 18th century), meaning ‘to catch’, comes from a northern English dialect word cap meaning ‘to capture or arrest’. This probably goes back to Latin capere, ‘to take or seize’. So a copper was a catcher, which is why it became an informal word for a police officer in the 1840s. Apprehended villains have been saying ‘ it's a fair cop!’ since the 1880s. See also capableCopper, the reddish-brown metal, comes from Latin cyprium aes ‘Cyprus metal’. The island of Cyprus was the Romans' main source of copper.
Rhymes atop, bop, chop, clop, crop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, glop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, sop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, top, underprop, whop nounPlural cops kɒpkɑp A conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.
Origin Late 18th century: possibly from Old English cop 'summit, top'. nounkɑpkäp informal A police officer. Example sentencesExamples - Jerry Vick I think probably was the most effective vice cop I've ever seen.
- Finally, when he wouldn't be convinced by simple police reports, the cops let him see the evidence.
- I spent most of my career as a prosecutor trying to weed out cops like this.
- As of this morning, the area around the Japanese embassy is still heavily policed by regular cops and Armed Police with riot gear.
- It reminds me of how on a certain Illinois highway, the cops would park a patrol car in a visible area on the side of the road.
- Many residents, say group members, pleaded with the cops to crack down on the drug dealers long before the recent shootings.
- What was the compelling news value of the news helicopter's pursuit of the car after cops broke off their chase?
- But there is nothing to say that cops can't monitor people while obscured by alleyway shadows.
- They had all been pestered by the police before, of course, but what teenage boy hadn't pulled some stupid stunt to get the cops on there backs?
- I felt sorry for the shivering cops out there, it wasn't their idea to shut things down, I guess.
- Three cops sat on the table next to it, watching him.
- So, why not allow cops to take a DNA sample from criminal suspects?
- Perhaps we need some courtesy cops on the motorways today.
- In this photo, the man who always boasted that cops could never infiltrate his gang was actually posing with several undercover agents.
- This was roundly contradicted by the top cop responsible for traffic policing.
- There are so many cops on the streets it seems logical that this would've happened eventually.
- So what's an ordinary citizen, or cop or government official to do with that in mind?
- Sam had almost killed the cops for not having patrol cars all around.
- He dodged the cops by monitoring police scanners to spy on the very people who were tracking him.
- The public really do feel reassured when they see cops out on the streets.
Synonyms policeman, policewoman, officer of the law, law enforcement agent, law enforcement officer, officer
verbkɑpkäp [with object]informal 1Catch or arrest (an offender) he was copped for speeding Example sentencesExamples - If they get caught and copped, if they get nicked and weighed-off, fair enough.
- 1.1 Incur (something unwelcome)
the team's captain copped most of the blame Example sentencesExamples - Let the government cop the political flak for spending taxpayers' money on this instead of heart operations.
- His leader Don Bash copped a broadside from one respondent who described him as ‘a wimp.’
- I've copped my fair share of nicks and cuts, but they haven't been serious wounds.
- If a person is caught traveling above the average speed they will cop multiple fines and lose several more points.
- I think I must be setting some kind of a record for the number of bans incurred and also the speed at which I cop them.
- He cops a boot for his troubles though, and - with his left eye bleeding - is still down getting treatment.
- We are going to cop flak from everywhere, but we are used to that.
- Then there were the subsequent occasions I was unfortunate enough to cop an earful.
- The list is culled from the letters received by fixed-penalty units in which motorists attempt to extricate themselves from copping a fine for speeding.
- If you haven't yet copped an earful, start here - they are only getting better with age.
- Convict captain Ricky Ponting copped one through the visor of his helmet that laid his cheek open.
- He copped a lot of criticism, which is not nice for anybody to take.
- Instead, the research suggests that because of the runaway housing market, many families with modest incomes' one big asset - their house - could end up copping inheritance tax at 40%.
- The English media thinks they're team's copping a raw deal from the Australian media this week.
- It's a ferocious and demanding sport and it takes a very special sort of bloke to put their body on their line, but it takes an even more courageous and humble man to go into a game knowing his team is about to cop a flogging.
- I'm not going to claim it as fact, but there's a widely held belief amongst many that the union movement cops an unjust and unfair hiding in the mainstream press.
- Your investment can produce top-quality diving no matter what the weather - and we copped the hurricane.
- They know that whether or not they turn up to court, the result is probably going to be about the same, they're probably going to be found guilty and they're probably going to cop a fine.
- By putting in place inexperienced senior police who had never copped the odd punch in the mouth or broken nose in the line of duty, the police force hung the community and the local police out to dry.
- We'd been through a really tough week in Dublin so, to be honest, we expected to cop some backlash.
2Receive or obtain (something welcome) she copped an award for her role in the film Example sentencesExamples - With the increased risk of being caught, people no longer dared either to cop a free ride or to carry a weapon.
- On February 20, it copped the audience award for best feature film at the Belize Film Festival.
- One of its distinguished principals, designer Peter Minshall, copped this country's first Grammy Award, albeit for work done abroad.
- He copped several A-level awards, including best all round student.
- It was her second Juno, following the Best Female Newcomer award she copped in 2001.
- Some of us have been watching television all our lives without copping an England team victory in a global event and without seriously suspecting we ever would.
- Besides, even if you were to cop that kiss, you would not magically get A's or stop daydreaming.
- He copped the award for the Most Outstanding Academic Performance, while Jeremiah Bishop received the Principal's Spirit Award.
- In the States, his choreography copped a Bessie award - given for contemporary dance and dance theater.
- Williams also copped the award for Academic Excellence and subject prizes for Biology and French.
- He was the top sprinter at the recent National Championships and copped the MVP award.
- New Park's players copped the other awards.
- 2.1US Steal.
he watched her cop a pair of earrings and then nabbed her at the door Example sentencesExamples - They finally figure a way to cop his coins and they leave LWM to get arrested for digging a hole in the ground.
- 2.2US Obtain (an illegal drug)
he copped some hash for me Example sentencesExamples - I went and copped some dope, then got on a methadone program.
- Dude is driving around town on his souped-up cycle, copping cannabis and picking up chicks.
- After copping, they may then not be able to obtain new syringes because local pharmacies and needle exchange services may be closed or far away.
- I really wanted to get high because I was very really stressed out, and something about having the Feds sit outside my apartment kept me from copping any drugs.
- I knew about three or four places to cop, all in the immediate area.
- Teresa, a 24-year-old crack user, found copping drugs was the major source of fights.
- Social Security checks, welfare checks, and food stamp pickups (food stamp trading for drugs and other items) change street activities and copping frequency.
3North American Strike (an attitude or pose) I copped an attitude—I acted real tough Example sentencesExamples - She was copping this attitude, an annoying attitude, and I shook my head, grabbing the beer from beside her and opening it up, taking a huge gulp.
- The kid started copping an attitude with me, like I had complained on him or something, going so far as flipping me off a couple times as he and one of his mouth-breather chums pulled away in a car.
- Alas, I had been copping a generally arrogant attitude since hitting the water despite an almost complete lack of skills and now I was going to pay for it.
- They get paid millions to cop an attitude and are allowed to fail to deliver the goods on the field, court, or what have you.
- Of course, a player tends to cop this type of attitude when he knows his days with his current employer are numbered.
- It's just that Valentine's been copping a lot of attitude lately and that's totally unlike him.
- Early on, I expect I saw more influences than there really were, just assuming that if anyone was doing anything remotely similar, they musta been copping it from us, but I got over that reasonably fast.
- Don't like it when someone else cops the attitude you usually reserve for yourself?
- But if it approves this issue without sending it out to referendum, it's copping an elitist attitude with the snootiest of them.
- ‘It's pretty easy,’ April says, copping an easy-going attitude and ruining any hopes of juicy controversy.
- Someone who comes off as arrogant and cops a holier-than-thou attitude should be booed.
- But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star.
Phrases informal Fondle someone sexually, especially in a surreptitious way or without their permission. Example sentencesExamples - Morris copped a feel again this afternoon, shoved his hand right down my uniform.
- He's hit on me all night, tried cop a feel, and refused to back off.
- The liquor is talking to them and they try to cop a feel.
- ‘What a get up,’ he added, copping a feel of Lynn's well outlined derrière.
- Don't tell me you tried to cop a feel or something.
- But I know it was probably him trying to cop a feel.
- I feel like I just shelled out a couple hundred bucks for dinner for two at a nice restaurant, but didn't even get to cop a feel.
- You wouldn't believe how many guys try to cop a feel, or jump on stage and try to molest me.
- And don't you dare cop a feel in the back seat of my car.
- Despite their stuck-in-high-school doofiness, they were loyal friends who tried to do right by the girls, even as they were trying to cop a feel.
- But not even an Italian will cop a feel and then try to get away with a lame: ‘I was just being friendly.’
- He thinks it's a good thing that I keep staring at him, but really I'm just afraid he's going to try to cop a feel while I'm not looking.
- People in Cornwall will be parading about in horse costumes trying to cop a feel of the local farmer's daughter.
- Then she tried dating, concluding from one adolescent's attempt to cop a feel that all men go about this, no matter what their age.
- As I sauntered down the beach on the prowl for a passed out girl that I could cop a feel from, I spied a raggedy looking tent that was selling strange looking wares.
- If he tries anything funny, like lifting up her skirt to cop a feel, he gets his hand slapped.
informal usually in imperativeTake hold of. cop hold of the suitcase, I'm off Example sentencesExamples - During a game of the sophisticated ‘spin the bottle’, she copped hold of Pete.
- Dad sprung from his chair like greased lightning, copped hold of the impudent young whippersnapper and bent him over his knee for a ceremonial thrashing.
- ‘Well, aren't you in for a surprise then, here cop hold of this’, and I handed him a mug of ‘coffee’ liberally laced with what the girl had given me.
- Don't get me wrong, there's some pretty stirring stuff - much like we'd have from Mars Volta if they ever copped hold of a bunch of Coldplay records - but what the rich, fluid tones gain in consistency, they lose in relief.
- I've only time for a short review, so my tip is cop hold of ‘Independently Blue’, lie back and relax.
informal Engage in plea bargaining. Example sentencesExamples - Until today that is, when he copped a plea in U.S. District Court in Concord.
- When common criminals are allowed to cop a plea, they plead guilty first as part of the bargain.
- Let's say I walked after copping a plea to obstruction of justice.
- Anybody else in this industry would have already copped a plea, and that's just what the government wants.
- The nine defendants, advised by their lawyers to cop a plea of guilty in return for ‘lighter’ prison sentences, mounted their own defence and were eventually acquitted of the charges by an all white jury.
- In Germany, meanwhile, an accused MP cops a plea, or plans to anyway.
- To encourage the defendant to cop a plea, some reduction in the charge is usually offered.
- You can defend yourself against an indictment or you can cop a plea.
- Leon had copped a plea of guilty for solicitation and accepted the penalty of time served - a charge for which he had previously done real time.
- I think they were trying to get the defense to cop a plea in that case.
informal Used to refer to a police interrogation technique in which one officer feigns a sympathetic or protective attitude while another adopts an aggressive approach. they'll bring you into the station and play good cop, bad cop with you figurative a Jekyll and Hyde CEO is good cop, bad cop rolled into one expensive suit Example sentencesExamples - Now, don't play good cop, bad cop with me.
- The translator should not be used in a "good cop, bad cop" role.
- Before, the administration seemed to want it to do kind of a good cop, bad cop with Arafat.
- We should play good cop, bad cop with him.
- Playing good cop, bad cop, they alternated sweetness and challenge.
- The reaction of England management was interesting, almost on the lines of good cop, bad cop.
- It seems they play good cop, bad cop out on the training pitch.
- Mr Mills claimed that two prosecutors, playing " good cop, bad cop ", had put the words into his mouth.
- But to me, his own piece really hangs together with that of the Post in sort of a twisted "good cop, bad cop" kind of thing.
- Viewed from Tehran, the west is playing a classic game of good cop, bad cop.
Phrasal Verbs Avoid doing something that one ought to do. he copped out at the last moment Example sentencesExamples - Originally, I was going to cop out of this with a joke answer.
- Somehow these Globe directors and designers seem to have gotten it into their heads that it is copping out to design costumes that are appropriate for the characters!
- Don't cop out by claiming that you're trying to reach all readers.
- And yes, I am also copping out of writing an entry to wrap this year up.
- So he cops out on charitable donations and still tries to fight in the name of ‘the greater good?’
- Despite its weaknesses, it never drags and by the end ties up the plot quite satisfactorily without copping out.
- Rather than face criticism, Fisk cops out by vilifying his critics as ‘haters’ who indulge in right-wing demagoguery.
- And, without giving anything away, Lucas totally cops out of the one truly disturbing moment the movie could have had.
- Ultimately, the plot cops out and an easy solution is pasted on to avoid confusion.
- There's always the possibility that whatever enticing visions the Bush team puts forward, the Americans will just find them too hard to implement, and will end up copping out.
Synonyms avoid, shirk, skip, dodge, sidestep, skirt round, bypass, steer clear of, evade, escape, run away from, shrink from, slide out of, back out of, pull out of, turn one's back on
there are a lot of people who don't cop to their past Example sentencesExamples - She has the tone of a recovering alcoholic copping to past bad behavior.
- His name as a performer and a producer is synonymous with ‘do it yourself’ and ‘low fidelity’, whether he'll cop to it or not.
- Williams quickly copped to having had a conflict of interest and apologized for his ‘bad judgment.’
- This is a case of sloppy staff work in Brown's office and not much more - but it's still a screw-up, which explains why Brown's office immediately copped to the miscue.
- By now I'm used to admitting error on a fairly regular basis - but I'm not copping to this one.
- Disrespecting the Bing basically meant copping to an insignificant offense in order to avoid taking responsibility for, or admitting to, a far graver one.
- Okay, so what he is basically copping to is a complete abdication of his Congressional responsibilities, a failure to uphold his oath, and a seeming lack of knowledge regarding our Constitution.
- They saw magazine executives under oath in a celebrity trial copping to fraudulent circulation figures.
- But she always finds others to castigate for their immorality and selfishness, rarely copping to what she would call a decadent lifestyle if another woman lived it.
- But no, Jude Law raised his hands and copped to it.
Origin Early 18th century (as a verb): perhaps from obsolete cap ‘arrest’, from Old French caper ‘seize’, from Latin capere. The noun is from copper. nounkɑpkäp A conical or cylindrical roll of thread wound onto a spindle.
Origin Late 18th century: possibly from Old English cop ‘summit, top’. |