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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
cops
- plural of cop
- (slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity.
1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy:"Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.
1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan:I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive on the scene
Translations
Verb
cops
- third-person singular simple present indicative of cop
Etymology 2
Noun
cops
- (UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry:It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops […]
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
cops
- plural of cop
French
Pronunciation
Noun
cops m
- plural of cop
Latin
Etymology
From co- + ops.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cōps (genitive cōpis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (Old Latin) abounding in, rich, copious
- Synonym: cōpiōsus
- Antonym: inops
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
References
- cops in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “copis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- copis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
Old English
Noun
cops m
- Alternative form of cosp