You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out tocop theTimes and croissants.
1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad,Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story, page191:
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.
2005, Martin Torgoff,Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page10:
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 tocop smack.
Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see youcoppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve tocop it.
1992, “Straight Razor”, inRoxanne Shanté (lyrics),The Bitch Is Back:
You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick What do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back, Open the trunk to the nickel-plate 38? “Wait wait, baby, please!” That's the shit he'scoppin when he’s down on both his knees
2009, Lee Headington,Relentless, page 5:
I now understand that my dad didn't really have much of a father-son relationship and may have found my behaviour hard to deal with. Maybe that is why Icopped a beating.
I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.' She laid the bearskin and freaked the joint off with her lights and other crap. Except for the fake stars it was a fair mock-up of her pad where I hadcopped her.
2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell,The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page55:
The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before Icopped her.
Originally a slang term, but now in general use, including by journalists and police. Terms likepolice officer are generally considered more respectful.
(Can weverify(+) this sense?)(obsolete) Thecrown (of the head); also thehead itself.[14th–15th c.]
The stature is bowed down in age, thecop is depressed.
A roughlydome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White,Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing,→ISBN, page142:
[…] the elbowcop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shouldercop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.
In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons,cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...
2013, George Cameron Stone,A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation,→ISBN, page364:
Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the kneecops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, kneecops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.
Per GDLC, possibly fromAncient Greekκόλπος(kólpos,“bosom, lap; fabric fold; pocket”), with influence fromcopa(“cup”). First attested in 1324.[1] In some senses (e.g. "snowflake"), influenced bySpanishcopo(“flake”).
Also, in a fashion similar to recycled paper, [they] polished or directlycopied others' derivative work such as “to speak of this” [a meme] or images by9gag, creating “twice derivative work”.
2022 January 14, “COLLAR新歌驚現亞視《百萬富翁》廠景 網民好奇問：原來仲未拆”, in新假期[2]:
Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “cop”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, inMateryały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page387
“cop”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
No longer found as an independent word,cop is now used as an element in other words for "spider", such ascopyn,pryf cop andpryf copyn and derived terms.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cop”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
