cop it
Verb
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Verb
cop it
- (British, slang) To get into trouble; to be punished.
- 1915, Lyman Abbott, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook
- "Oh, you'll cop it," said the recruit. "The sergeant has been here twice looking for you."
- 1966, Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks, My Childhood
- He shook his black, dishevelled hair ominously and said: "You'll cop it for this!"
- 1915, Lyman Abbott, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook
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