Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pointed; crested; rising to a point or head; conical.
- Convex. [Prov. Eng.]
- In heraldry, same as coppé. Also coppled.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of cop.
- adj. Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.
Examples
“And C.K. Scott-Moncrieff did Proust the ambiguous favor of Englishing his masterpiece under a more resonant, less relevant title copped from Shakespeare.”
“Style copped from the aforementioned him. posted by Slimbolala link”
“Black To Comm-a name copped from the MC5-have suggested what would have happened had that band really kicked out the jams, motherfuckers, and dispensed not just with verse-chorus-verse songwriting, but with their instruments, their whole sound, and indeed their careers.”
“I ask that because Governor Bush was with us last week, and he agrees completely with you and the trade issue; but he said he thought -- I'm paraphrasing -- that you kind of copped out, that you didn't forcefully attack those people who were demonstrating, you sort of rode the middle.”
“_ You'd ha 'copped' im if yer'd bin a bit quicker.”
“These men of hard toiling lives and dull imagination were there to see women of a class and education superior to their own break the law and get "copped" for it, just like one of themselves.”
“If he's been "copped", as they say, why has he been "copped"?”
“The trader 'copped' a strangle play by selling 3,000 puts at the May $46 strike for a premium of $1.77 apiece in combination with the sale of 3,000 calls at the May”
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