You can picture cop as a quick grab — a hand reaching out and catching hold of something. From 'catching' a thief comes the cop (the catcher), and from 'catching' something on you comes copping blame, trouble, or a feeling.
From the word’s history
Probably from northern dialect cap 'to catch, seize', from Old French caper and Latin capere 'to take, seize'; the 'catch' sense gave both the police 'catcher' and the verb 'to receive/cop something'.
一般認為來自方言 cap「抓、捉」,可追到古法語 caper、拉丁文 capere「拿取、抓住」。這個「抓」的意思,既生出「抓人的警察」,也生出「接住、承受某物」的動詞。
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原始詞典資料30 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
copverb詞源 1/kɒp/
- 1
datedinformalTo capture or arrest someone.
- 2
informalTo obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.
- He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
- 3
To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.
- I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.
- 4
slangTo see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- 5
To steal.
- Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine
- 6
To adopt.
- No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
- 7
slangTo admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
- Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
- 8
slangTo recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.' She laid the bearskin and freaked the joint off with her lights and other crap. Except for the fake stars it was a fair mock-up of her pad where I had copped her.
- The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
slangTo take (a look, glance, etc.).
- Cop an eyeful of this!
copnoun詞源 2/kɒp/
- 1
informalA police officer or prison guard.
copnoun詞源 3/kɒp/
- 1
obsoleteA spider.
copnoun詞源 4/kɒp/
- 1
A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
- 2
architecturegovernmentmilitaryA merlon.
- 3
historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
- […] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.
- In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...
- 4
hobbieslifestylespinningA conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- 5
obsoleteThe top, summit, especially of a hill.
- Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- close of play
- conference of the parties
- common operational picture
- community ophthalmic physician
- center of pressure
- coefficient of performance
- code of practice
- community of property
- cholesterol oxidation product
- ConocoPhillips
- Code of Points
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