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coop

1

[ koop, koop ]

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.
  4. Sometimes Facetious. a cooperative, especially the cooperative bookstore of a college or university.


verb (used with object)

  1. to place in or as if in a coop; confine narrowly (often followed by up or in ).

verb (used without object)

  1. Slang. (of a police officer) to park and sleep inside one's patrol car while on duty.

coop.

2
or co-op

abbreviation for

  1. cooperative.

coop.

1

abbreviation for

  1. cooperative


coop

2

/ kuːp /

noun

  1. a cage or small enclosure for poultry or small animals
  2. a small narrow place of confinement, esp a prison cell
  3. a wicker basket for catching fish

verb

  1. tr; often foll by up or in to confine in a restricted area

coop

3

the internet domain name for

  1. a cooperative

coop

4

/ ˈkəʊˌɒp /

noun

  1. a cooperative, cooperative society, or shop run by a cooperative society

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Other Words From

  • un·coop verb (used with object)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of coop1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English coupe “basket,” perhaps from Scandinavian or ultimately from Latin cūpa “cask, tub” ( cup ( def ) ); cognate with Norwegian kaup “wooden can,” Old English cȳpa “basket”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of coop1

C15: probably from Middle Low German kūpe basket, tub; related to Latin cūpa cask, vat

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. fly the coop, Informal. to run off; depart abruptly; escape:

    We stopped to see my sister, but she'd flown the coop.

More idioms and phrases containing coop

see fly the coop .

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Example Sentences

The team coupled four years of data from these chickens, kept in coops across the state to monitor the spread of diseases, with a world atlas of artificial night sky brightness.

So is the literal “turkey point of view” offered by the GoPros attached to the turkeys as they run around the coop.

Not in hell, but in my own chicken coop, which does not cost $1500 to enter.

This renewable (I mean renewed every single damn day) bio-energy (otherwise known as fetid rot) helps keep the coop warm.

I had to chase the chickens back into the coop and close the door so I could finish with the Augean Stables of the chicken pen.

Meditations on the pursuit of happiness while cleaning the chicken coop.

Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.

He sat in a confined little metal coop of a cabin, hardly enough in which to stand erect.

The midget recovered Alfred's knife from the dust and walked over to the trailer that he noted had a wooden coop of slats aboard.

One of them struck a hen-coop on the Saratoga, in which one of the sailors kept a fighting cock.

Then I went around and picked them off the branches until I had half a dozen plump ones stowed away in a coop.

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