cop

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Informal A police officer.
2. n. Informal One that regulates certain behaviors or actions: "Faced with the world recession of the early 1980s, ... the World Bank ... became a stern economic taskmaster and cop” ( Richard J. Barnet).
3. v. To take unlawfully or without permission; steal. See Synonyms at steal.
4. v. To get hold of; gain or win: a show that copped four awards; copped a ticket to the game.
5. v. To take or catch: "copped a quick look at the gentleman in a caramel cashmere sport coat on the right” ( Gail Sheehy).
6. cop out To avoid fulfilling a commitment or responsibility; renege: copped out on my friends; copped out by ducking the issue.
7. idiom. cop a plea To plead guilty to a lesser charge so as to avoid standing trial for a more serious charge.
8. n. A cone-shaped or cylindrical roll of yarn or thread wound on a spindle.
9. n. Chiefly British A summit or crest, as of a hill.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The head or top of a thing; especially, the top of a hill.
2. n. A tuft on the head of birds.
3. n. A round piece of wood fixed on the top of a beehive. [Prov. Eng.]
4. n. A mound or bank; a heap of anything. [North. Eng.]
5. n. An inclosure with a ditch around it. [Prov. Eng.]
6. n. A fence. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.]
7. n. A merlon, or portion of a battlement.
8. n. The conical ball of thread formed on the spindle of a wheel or spinning-frame. Also called coppin.
9. n. A tube upon which silk thread is sometimes wound, instead of being made into skeins.
10. n. A measure of peas, 15 sheaves in the field and 16 in the barn.
11. n. A spider.
12. n. An obsolete form of cup.
13. n. A policeman.
14. To capture or arrest as a prisoner: as, he was copped for stealing.
15. To throw underhand.
16. n. In golf, the face of a bunker.
17. n. An abbreviation of Copernican;
18. n. of Coptic;
19. n. [lowercase] of copper.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete A spider.
2. v. transitive to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take
3. v. transitive to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
4. v. transitive to steal
5. v. transitive to adopt
6. v. intransitive, usually with "to" (slang) to admit, especially to a crime.
7. n. slang, law enforcement A police officer or prison guard.
8. n. slang, offensive, African American Vernacular by extension any white male especially large and clean cut
9. n. crafts The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
10. n. obsolete The top, summit, especially of a hill.
11. n. obsolete The head.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
2. n. A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
3. n. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
4. n. (Mil. Arch.) Same as Merlon.
5. n. Slang A policeman.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. take into custody
2. v. take by theft
3. n. uncomplimentary terms for a policeman