Cop

Etymology 1
From coppe:, from  *undefined:, as in atorcoppe:, from  copp:, from, from. Cognate with koppe:, kobbe:. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  A spider.

Etymology 2
Possibly from capere:, from  capio:; or possibly from  kapen:, from  kapia:, from  kapia:, to buy.

Verb

 * 1)  To capture, get hold of, take.
 * 2) * 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon &amp; Schuster, page 10,
 * 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.
 * 1)  To steal.
 * 2)  To adopt.
 * No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.
 * 1)  To admit.
 * Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".

Etymology 3
Short for copper:, itself from cop: above, i.e. a criminal.

Noun

 * 1)  A police officer.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:police officer

Etymology 4
cop:, copp:, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch kop:, German Kopf:.

Noun

 * 1)  The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
 * 2)  The top, summit, especially of a hill.
 * 3)  The head.

Verb

 * 1)   to admit, especially to a crime.
 * I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
 * 1)  to receive, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

Adjectives
strutting; hidebound; bullying; pompous; brass-buttoned; mace-brandishing; dictatorial; obliging; humanitarian.

Thesaurus
Dogberry, John Law, abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bluecoat, bobby, boost, borrow, bull, cabbage, clout, complex cone, cone, conelet, conoid, copper, cornet, crib, defraud, dick, embezzle, extort, filch, flatfoot, flattie, funnel, fuzz, gendarme, gumshoe, heat, hook, ice-cream cone, lift, make off with, man, nab, nip, officer, palm, peeler, pig, pilfer, pinch, pine cone, poach, purloin, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shamus, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, the cops, the fuzz, the law, thieve, walk off with

Verb

 * Bulgarian: хващам, пипвам, арестувам

Derived terms

 * cop a feel
 * cop a plea
 * cop off
 * cop on
 * cop out, cop-out

Noun

 * Bulgarian: полицай, ченге
 * Dutch: diender
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,  (chicken)
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:


 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: коп, , лягавый ,  ,
 * Slovak: poliš, hekáč
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * CPO, OPC, POC

Noun

 * 1) hit, blow, strike
 * 2) time, occasion

Etymology
German Zopf

Noun

 * 1) braid

Derived terms

 * copánek
 * copatý

Etymology
A shortened form of copain.

Pronunciation

 * [kɔp]

Noun

 * 1)  A friend, a pal.

Noun

 * 1) braid

Declension

 * declension pattern