cop

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.

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

2. 2
   verb

   To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

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

3. 3
   verb

   To steal.

   Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine

4. 4
   verb

   To adopt.

   No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.

5. 5
   verb

   To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

   I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?

6. 6
   verb

   To recruit a prostitute into the stable.

   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 had copped her.

7. 7
   verb

   To take (a look, glance, etc.).

   Cop an eyeful of this!

8. 8
   noun

   A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

   […] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, 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.

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.