cop

cop

informal A police officer. A couple of cops came in asking questions this morning. Is everything all right? I always wanted to be a cop when I was a kid.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cop

1. tv. to take or steal something. (Originally underworld.) Somebody copped the statue from the town square.
2. n. a theft. (Underworld.) They pulled the cop in broad daylight.
3. n. a police officer. (From sense 1) The cop wasn’t in any mood to put up with any monkey business.
4. tv. to arrest someone. (see also copped.) They copped Sam with the evidence right on him.
5. n. an arrest. It was a smooth cop. No muss, no fuss.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • be not much cop
  • beat cop
  • bent cop
  • catch some Zs
  • Cheese it the cops!
  • cheese it, the cops
  • cheese it-the cops!
  • cop
  • cop (something) from (someone or something)
  • cop a drag
  • cop a feel
  • cop a fix
  • cop a head
  • cop a heel
  • cop a packet
  • cop a plea
  • cop a squat
  • cop a tube
  • cop an attitude
  • cop from
  • cop hold of
  • cop hold of (someone or something)
  • cop it
  • cop it sweet
  • cop off
  • cop off with (one)
  • cop on
  • cop onto
  • cop onto (something)
  • cop onto something
  • cop out
  • cop some Zs
  • cop some Z's
  • copped
  • cop-shop
  • dirty cop
  • it's a fair cop
  • it's/that's a fair cop
  • not much cop
  • rent-a-cop
References in periodicals archive
The second criterion for developing a sustainment COP is depicting operations in the AO that affect sustainment operations.
GOOD COP: Feel-good factor of consecutive top-flight seasons for first time since 1974/75, Sean Dyche is a canny boss and Turf Moor is a tough place to visit.
The experience on the receiving end is so universal that it doesn't matter if it is 10 percent or 98 percent of all cops who lie.
4 STAKEOUT (1987) A CRIME comedy starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as cops staking out escaped hood Aiden Quinn's former girlfriend.
As expected, our results show that operated subjects showed not only a higher CoP displacement compared with controls but they also displaced their CoP at a higher rate (Table 1).
To get to the CoP, go to the Battle Command Knowledge System (BCKS) portal at https://forums.bcks.army.mil and click on HAZMAT Transportation CoP.
Many authors such as du Plessis (2008) mentioned that members of CoP usually share the same goal of learning from each other, they share the same knowledge and/or experience, they have common concerns and interests, and they are informally engaged together.
In agricultural areas, building a COP is challenging, but commanders generally have the freedom to design the dimensions of their COPs and create standoff from assault.
Rawalpindi -- A station house officer and 10 other cops were suspended on Thursday after a citizen died in police custody allegedly due to severe torture in Gujar Khan.
PESHAWAR -- The city police will deploy more than 4,700 cops to ensure peace during the upcoming polls in Khyber tribal district and Hassankhel region of Peshawar.
Summary: Shamli (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 10 (ANI): A Sikh truck driver confronted the Uttar Pradesh cops with a sword after they tugged his beard during an argument on a highway in the state's Shamli district on Tuesday.
Two scandals in one day involving wannabe cops! As if that were not enough coincidence, the two incidents came to light while a press conference was going on to acquaint the public with PNP's goal for 2030: to transform the national police into a "highly capable, effective and credible police service" that will mean "a safer place to live, work, and do business."
Streamlight also hosted its 4th annual COPS. 5K/Fun Walk at Lower Perkiomen Valley Park Trail in Oaks, Pa., in June.
Addressing on the occasion, DIG Larkana Javed Akbar Riaz said that the sacrifices of the martyred cops can never be forgotten.