Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as cop, 8.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A cop of thread.

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  • noun A cop of thread.

Etymologies

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See cop.

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Examples

  • Have you ever heard of a person coppin to a lessor charge.

    Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance 2009

  • Admitting to a alleged affair is essentially coppin to a lessor charge.

    Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance 2009

  • February 26th, 2008 at 3: 22 pm wwbd says: whats up hombres?!!! chode: nice lift bro, is that one of those feather lifts because i was thinkiin of coppin one.

    SPURLOCKUMENTARY 2008

  • Loop - there is more you need to learn. by Marty Didier on Monday, Sep 22, 2008 at 8: 16: 31 PM losing the protection of the constitution by donald mc coppin on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 5: 30: 37 PM

    Welcome to the final stages of the coup... 2008

  • He's like, Steve, fookin Jaysus, it's the prime minister of fookin Canada and he's coppin a tude wit me.

    Bono calls me, drunk off his ass 2007

  • Yerra, why would he heed that old gasometer with his hooping coppin and his dyinboosycough and all the birds of the southside after her, Minxy Cunningham, their dear divorcee darling, jimmies and jonnies to be her jo?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • I think it's like George Washington, coppin 'the neighbor's cherry.

    The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004

  • He was only a harness cop then, and one night he thought he made me coppin 'a super from a lush, which you know ain't my graft.

    Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

  • _He's_ been coppin 'where they race your eyeballs off.

    Blister Jones John Taintor Foote 1915

  • And, say, my coppin 'that out don't go to prove I'm a Mr. Cute.

    Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

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