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noun

Cop n.

The top of a thing; the head; a crest. (Obs.) "Cop they used to call The tops of many hills."

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

(Mil. Arch.) Same as Merlon.

A policeman. (Slang)

Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.

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"Cop" Quotes from Famous Books

... when that door opens, even if she does act like she was hanging on the words of that lady clerk there. The minute it does open a crack she'll jump up and give me a fleeting, grateful smile, and sail in and cop a fat order away from the old man and his skirt buyer. I'm wise. Say, he may be an oyster, but he knows a pretty woman when he sees one. By the time she's through with him he'll have enough petticoats on hand to last him ...

— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber

... have frequently to apply to them for information, and it sometimes happens that the answer is couched in language that may be Polish, so far as the querist knows, though, in fact, there is no polish about it. It is more likely to be COPTIC, as the policeman of the period likes to call himself a "COP." If there is a street sensation in progress, and you ask a contemplative policeman the cause of it, matters are not made perfectly clear to you when he replies that it is "only a put-up job to screen a fence" or words to that affect. If you ask him to explain ...

— Punchinello, Vol. II. No. 38, Saturday, December 17, 1870. • Various

... on head of birds; "a cop" may have reference to one or other meaning; Gifford and others interpret as "conical, terminating in ...

— Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson

... our soldiers. We good-naturedly indulge the boys when they are called on to exercise authority. But from the time an American youngster begins to steal apples and junk and throw snowballs and break windows a healthy fear of a regular cop is ingrained in him. It's a fear he doesn't stop to analyze. It's just there, that's all he knows. Even a perfectly law-abiding citizen walking home late feels a little tingle of anxiety in him when he marches past a cop. Puts on an ...

— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day

... check of cynics. If you are run over on Market Street and left groaning under the mailed fist of a flivver, the Bolsheviki and I.W.W. will be watching the shop windows. It will be the Boob who will come to your aid, even before the cop gets there. ...

— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley

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