1. Uncomplimentary term for a policeman
   "The criminals scattered when they heard the cops were coming";
   - bull [US, informal], copper [Brit, informal], pig [informal], bizzy [UK, dialect, informal], peeler [Brit, archaic], rozzer [Brit, informal], fed [Brit, informal]

1. Take into custody
   "the police copped the suspected criminals";
   - collar [informal], nail [informal], apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab [informal], pinch [Brit, informal], nick [Brit, informal]
    
2. Take by theft
   "He was going to cop the phone someone had left behind";
   - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, knock off [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], boost [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [archaic, informal], purloin [informal], pinch [Brit, informal], abstract [informal], snarf [N. Amer, informal], swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], lift [informal], nick [Brit, informal], snatch [informal], whip [Brit, informal], blag [Brit, informal]
    
3. [N. Amer, informal] Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
   "He decided to cop to his mistakes to his boss";
   - make a clean breast of, own up, fess up [informal], cop to [N. Amer, informal], own, come clean [informal], fess [informal]

Sounds like: kop

Derived forms: copped, cops, copping

Type of: bobby [Brit, informal], clutch, concede, confess, officer, plod [Brit, informal], police officer, prehend [archaic], profess, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], seize, steal, take hold, take hold of

Encyclopedia: Cop, Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Haiti