cops

• IPA^(key): /kɒps/ (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɒps
• Homophone: copse

cops

1. plural of cop
2. (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

cops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of cop

cops

1. (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 […]

• COSP, CPOs, PCOS, PCSO, POCs, PoCs, scop

cops

1. plural of cop

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cops m

1. plural of cop