cop

Meaning

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
2. (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
3. (slang, transitive) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
4. (transitive) To steal.
5. (transitive) To adopt.
6. (intransitive, slang, usually) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
7. (slang, transitive) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
8. (slang, transitive) To take (a look, glance, etc.).

Noun

A police officer or prison guard.

Noun

A spider.

Noun

1. The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
2. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
3. A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
4. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
5. A merlon.

Synonyms

policeman

👮‍♂️

police officer

👮

copper

constable

police

👮

fuzz

pig

🐖

bobby

policewoman

👮‍♀️

thieve

steal

patrolman

snitch

rob

officer

bull

catch

guardian

actor

agent

apprehend

arrest

capture

collar

gendarme

glom

hook

🪝

knock off

nab

nail

operative

pick up

police constable

purloin

swipe

watcher

gumshoe

Bobby

guard

💂

peeler

police-officer

get

pinch

bobbin

police force

font

filth

embezzle

purchase

🛍️

policy

Translations

poliziotto

👮‍♂️

flic

👮

Polizist

👮

policía

Bulle

policier

👮

sbirro

👮

polícia

👮

policia

👮

politieagent

👮

policial

👮

polis

👮

police

👮

keuf

👮

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɒp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *coppen

Inherited from Old English: copian

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: koopje

Cognate with Northern Frisian: koope

Cognate with Middle English: copen

Cognate with Middle Dutch: copen

Inherited from Middle English: cop

Inherited from Old English: cop

Cognate with Dutch: kop

Cognate with German: Kopf

In summary

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 West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

Sentences

As in the films , Harry Callahan walks the line between bad cop and psychopath .