Cop

/kɒp/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, informal, dated) to capture or arrest someone.

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, informal, dated) to capture or arrest someone
2. (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
3. (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
4. (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
5. (transitive) To steal.
6. (transitive) To adopt.
7. (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
8. (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.

Example Sentences

You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.

He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.

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.

Off the juice, codeine got me trippin' copped the coupe, woke up, roof is missin'...

Uh, copped a BMW, new deposit, I picked up another bag Like fuck it, I'ma count while I'm in it...

Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.

When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.

I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.

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• cops
• copping
• copped

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