coop

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  1. noun An enclosure or cage, as for poultry or small animals.
  2. noun Slang An uncomfortably confined space.
  3. noun Slang A prison.
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  • The DRB denied one application on the grounds that the lot was too small for a coop, which would have been within 50 feet of a neighbor's house. —  Brattleboro Reformer Most Emailed
  • Laying hens require between 212 and 3 square feet of space and six feet of headroom, he said, and if a coop is cleaned out on a regular basis, there is virtually no smell involved. —  Brattleboro Reformer Most Emailed
  • It's not so bad that it's unplayable, but the coop is far better on LIVE. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Reply it's £6 and in coop, these are usually pretty fun. —  Xboxic
  • The coop is asking residents to lower their thermostat down 3 degrees between the hours of
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coop:   cooped ·  coops
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English coupe, possibly from Middle Dutch kūpe, basket, tub, from Germanic *kūpōn, possibly from Latin cūpa, cask.

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  1. from Middle English *coop or *cope, a box or cask, not found (cf. Middle English cupe, a basket, from Anglo-Saxon cy¯pa, a basket, = Low German küpc, kipc, later G. kiepe, a basket (see kipe); Middle English coop for coppe = cuppe, a cup), = Old Saxon kōpa = Dutch kuip, a tub, = Old High German chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, German kufe, a coop, tub, vat, from Middle Latin cōpa, by-form of Latin cūpa (later F. cure = Provencal Spanish Portuguese cuba), a tub, vat, cask, = Greek κύπη, a hole, hut, = Sanskrit kūpa, a pit, well, hollow. Akin to cup, q. v. Cf. Welsh cwbiar, a hen-coop.
  2. from coop, n.
 

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