| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
cop1 (kɒp) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | another name for policeman |
| 2. | (Brit) an arrest (esp in the phrase a fair cop) |
| 3. | an instance of plagiarism |
| —vb , cops, copping, copped | |
| 4. | to seize or catch |
| 5. | to steal |
| 6. | Compare score to buy, steal, or otherwise obtain (illegal drugs) |
| 7. | Also: cop it to suffer (a punishment): you'll cop a clout if you do that! |
| 8. | slang (Austral) cop it sweet |
| a. to accept a penalty without complaint | |
| b. to have good fortune | |
| [C18: (vb) perhaps from obsolete cap to arrest, from Old French caper to seize; sense 1, back formation from | |
| COP | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| Certificate of Proficiency: a pass in a university subject | |
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