cop

1. 1.

   uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

   Synonymsbullcopperfuzzpig

   Broaderpoliceman

   colloquialism

Other forms of cop

plural

cops·

past tense or participle

copped

present participle

copping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cop

What does cop mean?

cop means "take by theft". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cop?

cop has 1 syllable: cop. In IPA it is /ˈkɑp/.

What is another word for cop?

Close synonyms include hook, snitch, thieve, knock off, glom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cop a common word?

cop is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.