coop

Meaning

Noun

1. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
2. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
3. (slang) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
4. (obsolete) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.

Verb

1. To keep in a coop.
2. To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
3. To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
4. (slang) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
5. (obsolete) To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

Synonyms

cage

pen

🖊️

henhouse

chicken coop

hencoop

cooperative association

prison

cooperative

gaol

jail

pigeoncoop

dovecot

enclosure

pound

💷

coffer

collection

confine

cooler

corral

doghouse

encase

enclose

hock

hoosegow

hutch

immure

impound

inclose

internship

jug

lockup

nest

poky

quod

rack

run

slammer

stable

stall

stir

sty

hen-coop

trunk

hen coop

parrock

hennery

backet

jail house

penalty corner

crowbar hotel

bagnio

short corner

barrel

basket

🧺

big house

box

📦

brig

cabin

caddy

calaboose

case

cask

casket

chest

clink

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kuːp/

Etymology

From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern German Kufe (“cask (feminine)”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.