Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shackle for the hands or feet.
- noun A hasp.
- noun A bow-shaped piece of metal, bent into the form of a capital U, used as a holdfast at the end of a pole or beam (of a plow or wagon, etc.); a clevis.
- noun A former (and recent simplified) spelling of
copse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. The connecting crook of a harrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect The
connecting crook of aharrow . - noun slang Plural form of
cop .Police officers . - noun slang, with the The
police , considered as a group entity. - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cop .
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Examples
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She came close to being extremely attractive, except for the expression cops liked to call their game face.
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She came close to being extremely attractive, except for the expression cops liked to call their game face.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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She came close to being extremely attractive, except for the expression cops liked to call their game face.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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It's not an easy job and there are enormous amounts of stress that go along with it, that's why any stress related disease in cops is automatically considered job related.
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He jerked upright like a wind-up soldier and then looked at me, mouthing the word cops.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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He jerked upright like a wind-up soldier and then looked at me, mouthing the word cops.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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He jerked upright like a wind-up soldier and then looked at me, mouthing the word cops.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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He jerked upright like a wind-up soldier and then looked at me, mouthing the word cops.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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