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- verb Present participle of
coop . - noun The practice of forcing
unwilling participants tovote , often several times over, for a particularcandidate in anelection .
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Examples
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The official also said the Northern Command's exercise plans for "cooping" - continuity of operations, during which commanders go to off-site locations - also had been scratched.
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The official also said the Northern Command's exercise plans for "cooping" -- continuity of operations, during which commanders go to off-site locations -- also had been scratched.
Mudville Gazette Greyhawk 2010
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The official also said the Northern Command's exercise plans for "cooping" - continuity of operations, during which commanders go to off-site locations - also had been scratched.
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The official also said the Northern Command's exercise plans for "cooping" - continuity of operations, during which commanders go to off-site locations - also had been scratched.
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The official also said the Northern Command's exercise plans for "cooping" -- continuity of operations, during which commanders go to off-site locations -- also had been scratched.
Mudville Gazette Greyhawk 2010
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The official also said the Northern Command's exercise plans for "cooping" - continuity of operations, during which commanders go to off-site locations - also had been scratched.
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The official also said the Northern Command's exercise plans for "cooping" -- continuity of operations, during which commanders go to off-site locations -- also had been scratched.
Mudville Gazette Greyhawk 2010
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There is good evidence to support the theory that Poe was a victim of "cooping" - a practice whereby political gangs kidnapped vulnerable bystanders, cooped them up, got them drunk, and bullied them round the polling stations to vote over and over again for a corrupt candidate.
LewRockwell.com 2008
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Radical scrapes, the intimidation and 'cooping' of Tory voters being a characteristic of the elections of that day with the wilder spirits, of whom Thurtell was doubtless one.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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Michael Humphreys, a Northern Command spokesman, said the military officials decided to delink the Ardent Sentry exercise from the National Level Exercise, but he stressed that the command conducts other exercises and "cooping" at other times.
missanthropist commented on the word cooping
Collecting and confining Voters! several days prior to an election in a house or a vessel hired for that purpose. Here they are treated with good living and liquors, and at a proper day are taken out to the polls and "voted" as it is called, for the party.
James Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, 1877
May 20, 2008
dinkum commented on the word cooping
WORD: cooping
DEFINITION: ' Police slang for sleeping on the job. ' <b><i>See also</i></b> definition of "<b>coop</b>".
--- 1973. KURT VONNEGUT. <b><i>Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye Blue Monday</i></b>. Chapter 4 (Page 53).
EXAMPLE:
' Dwayne zoomed down Old County Road and onto the Interstate, which he had all to himself. He swerved into Exit Ten at a high rate of speed, slammed into a guard-rail, spun around and around. He came out onto Union Avenue going backwards, jumped a curb, and came to a stop in a vacant lot. Dwayne owned the lot.
' Nobody saw or heard anything. Nobody lived in the area. A policeman was supposed to cruise by about once every hour or so, but he was <b>cooping</b> in an alley behind a Western Electric warehouse about two miles away. <b>Cooping</b> was police slang for sleeping on the job. '
--- 1973. KURT VONNEGUT. <b><i>Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye Blue Monday</i></b>. Chapter 4 (Page 53).
December 18, 2013