ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cophouse

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Cophouse is a noun meaning (slang) A police station.

Meaning

(slang) A police station.

Example Sentences

I took breakfast in a little muncheonette three doors down from the cophouse.
I had a little over two hours before I turned back into a church mouse and had to report to the head cat at the cophouse.
Public security is one of the services still under military control, as I discovered in Beijing when I and another colleague inadvertently ended up in the local cophouse.

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Related dictionary entries include coop, cathouse, chickenhouse, bughouse, cooperage, cribhouse.

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