• (UK)IPA^(key): /kɒps/
• (US)IPA^(key): /kɑps/
• (General Australian)IPA^(key): /kɔps/

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• Homophone:copse
• Rhymes:-ɒps

cops

1. plural ofcop
2. (slang, withthe) Thepolice, considered as a group entity.
   • 1906,Horatio Alger,Joe the Hotel Boy:

     "Maybe he'll git thecops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.

   • 1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”, inDesire, performed by Bob Dylan:

     I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up thecops” / And so Patty calls thecops / And they arrive on the scene

cops

1. third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofcop

cops

1. (UK, dialect) Theconnectingcrook of aharrow.
   • 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 thecops[…]

• COSP,CPOs,PCOS,PCSO,POCs,PoCs,scop

cops

1. plural ofcop

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cops m

1. plural ofcop

• cōpis

Fromco- +‎ops.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈkoːps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈkɔps]

cōps (genitivecōpis);third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (Old Latin)abounding in,rich,copious

   Synonym:cōpiōsus

   Antonym:inops

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• cōpia

• “cops”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “copis”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• copis inGeorges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918),Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

cops m

1. alternative form ofcosp

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