cop

Nghĩa

Verb

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

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. (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
4. A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
5. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
6. A merlon.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/kɒp/

Từ nguyên

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.