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| Käännös | Konteksti |
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| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | slangi, lainvalvonta |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (obsolete) A spider.
- (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.
- (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
- (obsolete) The head.
- A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
- (architecture, military) A merlon.
Verbit
- (transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take
- (transitive) to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (transitive) to steal
- (transitive) to adopt
- (intransitive, usually with "to", slang) to admit, especially to a crime.
Esimerkit
- Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.
- When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father
- No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.
- I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
- Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
- He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter
- Cop they used to call / The tops of many hills.
- They stoled heaps of valuables, cops said.
- "We have copped some criticism but we can't be too sensitive about it and we came through it," he said. (bbc.co.uk)
- We copped a torpedo on the port side bow, making a hole above and below the water line that two double-deck buses could have driven through. (BBC, People's War)
- The conversation usually revolved around their worries about their husbands and the lack of food or who 'copped it' in the air raid the night before. (BBC, People's War)
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