cops
see also: COPs
Pronunciation
COPs
Noun
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see also: COPs
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɒps/ (British)
- plural form of cop
- (slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity.
- 1906, Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy
- "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.
- 1906, Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy
- French: vaches (cows), bœufs (oxen) (Canada), chiens (dogs) (Canada), vandames, cognes (the beat), cakes (the cakes)
- Portuguese: tiras, bófia
- third-person singular form of cop
cops
- (UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
- 1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry
- It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops […]
- 1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry
COPs
Noun
- plural form of COP
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