Cop

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cop \Cop\ (k[o^]p), n. [AS. cop; cf. G. kopf head. Cf. {Cup},
     {Cob}.]
     1. The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [Obs.]
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              Cop they used to call


              The tops of many hills.               --Drayton.
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     2. A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or
        roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
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     3. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
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     4. (Mil. Arch.) Same as {Merlon}.
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     5. A policeman. [Slang]
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     {Cop waste}, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of
        remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn
        has been unwound.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cop
       n : uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: {bull}, {copper},
            {fuzz}, {pig}]
       v 1: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: {hook}, {snitch},
             {thieve}, {knock off}, {glom}]
       2: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected
          criminals" [syn: {collar}, {nail}, {apprehend}, {arrest},
          {pick up}, {nab}]
       [also: {copping}, {copped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "cop":
     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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  COP
       Character-Oriented Protocol