Usually means: Provoking police to use lethal force.
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  1. suicide by cop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suicide by cop: The Word Spy
  3. suicide by cop: Wiktionary
  4. Suicide by cop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. suicide by cop: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (informal) A suicide in which a person points a firearm at an armed police officer to provoke them to shoot.

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