cop

verb

1. (dated, informal, transitive)to capture or arrest someone
2. (informal, transitive)To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.

   “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...”

3. (transitive)To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

   “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.”

4. (slang, transitive)To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
5. (transitive)To steal.

   “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”

6. (transitive)To adopt.

   “No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.”

7. (intransitive, slang, usually)To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

   “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”

8. (slang, transitive)To recruit a prostitute into the stable.

   “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.”

9. (slang, transitive)To take (a look, glance, etc.).

   “Cop an eyeful of this!”

noun

1. (informal)A police officer or prison guard.
2. (obsolete)A spider.
3. A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
4. A merlon.
5. (historical)A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

   “[…] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.”

   “In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...”

   “Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.”

6. A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
7. (obsolete)The top, summit, especially of a hill.

   “Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils”

8. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of close of play.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.

   “COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).”

   “COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.”

10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of common operational picture.
11. (Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of center of pressure.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of coefficient of performance.
14. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of code of practice.
15. (South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of community of property.
16. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of cholesterol oxidation product.
17. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”).

    “Rachel Kyte, a former senior World Bank official who is now dean of the Fletcher school at Tufts University in the US, and a close observer of Cops, said the war in Ukraine and the UK’s geopolitical relations were also key reasons to go.”

18. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of center of pressure.
19. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”).

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of ConocoPhillips.

   “The companies said the deal will make the new Conoco (COP) the largest independent oil-and-gas company in the United States, with daily production surpassing 1.5 million barrels. (Diversified oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron (CVX) pump more oil.)”