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noun
1.
an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
2.
any small or narrow place.
3.
Slang. a prison.
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Sometimes Facetious. a cooperative, especially the cooperative bookstore of a college or university.
verb (used with object)
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to place in or as if in a coop; confine narrowly (often followed by up or in).
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is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
verb (used without object)
Idiom6.
Slang. (of a police officer) to park and sleep inside one's patrol car while on duty.
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fly the coop, Informal. to run off; depart abruptly; escape: We stopped to see my sister, but she'd flown the coop.
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coop
O.E. cype, cypa "basket, cask," akin to M.Du. kupe, probably from L. cupa "tub, cask," from PIE *keup- "hollow mound." The verb is attested from 1560s.
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