cop
Significado (English)
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- (informal) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- To steal.
- To adopt.
- (slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- (slang) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
Synonyms
actor
police constable
police-officer
the fuzz
they are
Pigs
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/kɒp/
Etymology (English)
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 Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koope. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.
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