Usually means: Police officer enforcing law, order.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word cop:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. cop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cop, cop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cop, cop, cop, cop, cop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cop, Cop, cop: Wordnik
  7. cop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cop: Wiktionary
  9. cop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. COP, cop: Dictionary.com
  13. cop (n.), cop (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COP, CoP, Cop (album), Cop (film), Cop, The Cop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cop: Rhymezone
  19. Cop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COP, COP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Cop, Cop, Cop, Cop: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. cop: Free Dictionary
  24. cop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Cop: The Word Detective
  26. Cop, cop: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. Cop: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cop-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. COP: bizterms.net
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. COP: Investopedia
  6. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  7. Cop(police): Legal dictionary
  8. COP: Financial dictionary
  9. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cop(police), cop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  2. COP: Medical dictionary
  3. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. COP: Acronym Finder
  3. COP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cop: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cop: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cop, cop, cop, cop, cop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cop: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Cop: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. C.O.P, C.O.P, cop, the cop: Urban Dictionary
  6. Cop: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Cop: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See coping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
verb:  (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
verb:  (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
verb:  (transitive) To steal.
verb:  (transitive) To adopt.
verb:  (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
verb:  (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
noun:  (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
noun:  (obsolete) A spider.
noun:  (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
noun:  (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
noun:  (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
noun:  A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
noun:  A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
noun:  (architecture, military) A merlon.
noun:  (uncountable, UK) Initialism of close of play. [(cricket) The end of a day's play.]
noun:  (law, politics) Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.
noun:  (military) Initialism of common operational picture.
noun:  (Ireland, medicine) Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.
noun:  Initialism of coefficient of performance.
noun:  Initialism of code of practice. [A set of guidelines and regulations to be followed by members of some profession, trade, occupation, organization etc.; does not normally have the force of law.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”)
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”)

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