Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cop
Participle: copped
Gerund: copping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cop |
| you | cop |
| he;she;it | cops |
| we | cop |
| you | cop |
| they | cop |
Perfect
| I | have copped |
| you | have copped |
| he;she;it | has copped |
| we | have copped |
| you | have copped |
| they | have copped |
Past
| I | copped |
| you | copped |
| he;she;it | copped |
| we | copped |
| you | copped |
| they | copped |
Pluperfect
| I | had copped |
| you | had copped |
| he;she;it | had copped |
| we | had copped |
| you | had copped |
| they | had copped |
Future
| I | will cop |
| you | will cop |
| he;she;it | will cop |
| we | will cop |
| you | will cop |
| they | will cop |
Future Perfect
| I | will have copped |
| you | will have copped |
| he;she;it | will have copped |
| we | will have copped |
| you | will have copped |
| they | will have copped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cop |
| you | cop |
| he;she;it | cop |
| we | cop |
| you | cop |
| they | cop |
Perfect
| I | have copped |
| you | have copped |
| he;she;it | have copped |
| we | have copped |
| you | have copped |
| they | have copped |
Imperfect
| I | copped |
| you | copped |
| he;she;it | copped |
| we | copped |
| you | copped |
| they | copped |
Pluperfect
| I | had copped |
| you | had copped |
| he;she;it | had copped |
| we | had copped |
| you | had copped |
| they | had copped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cop |
| you | would cop |
| he;she;it | would cop |
| we | would cop |
| you | would cop |
| they | would cop |
Perfect
| I | would have copped |
| you | would have copped |
| he;she;it | would have copped |
| we | would have copped |
| you | would have copped |
| they | would have copped |
Imperative
| you | cop |
| we | Let's cop |
| you | cop |
Verbs conjugated like 'cop'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cop'
bop,
cap,
chop,
clop,
cob,
cod,
cog,
comp,
con,
coo,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- to gain possession of something
- accept, acquire, attain, enlist, gain, garner, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, land, lay hands on, lay hold of, obtain, procure, receive, score, secure, snag, take, win
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen. See: Old English '
copian', Middle French '
caper', Latin '
capiō', Dutch '
kapen', Old Frisian 'kāpia', Frisian, Saterlandic 'koopje', Middle Dutch '
copen'.
Verbs referencing "cop"
English
cup.
Sample Sentences
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You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants. [1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 4:]
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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. [1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story, page 191:]
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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. [2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10:]
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Off the juice, codeine got me trippin' copped the coupe, woke up, roof is missin'... [2020, Internet Money, Gunna, Don Toliver, “Lemonade”, in B4 The Storm ft. NAV:]
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Uh, copped a BMW, new deposit, I picked up another bag Like fuck it, I'ma count while I'm in it... [2021, Polo G, “RAPSTAR”, in Einer Bankz : Synco (music), Hall of Fame:]
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Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up. [2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):]
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When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.
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I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it. [1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 34:]
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You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick
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What do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back,
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Open the trunk to the nickel-plate 38?
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“Wait wait, baby, please!”
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That's the shit he's coppin when he’s down on both his knees [1992, “Straight Razor”, in Roxanne Shanté (lyrics), The Bitch Is Back:]
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I now understand that my dad didn't really have much of a father-son relationship and may have found my behaviour hard to deal with. Maybe that is why I copped a beating. [2009, Lee Headington, Relentless, page 5:]
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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 [2017, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell, “Copycat”, in Don't Smile at Me, performed by Billie Eilish:]
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No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
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I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
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Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
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He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter [2005, Elmore Leonard, Mr. Paradise, page 295:]
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I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.'
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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. [1967, Iceberg Slim, Pimp, published 2009, page 90:]
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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. [2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55:]
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