cops

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒps/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑps/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɔps/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: copse
• Rhymes: -ɒps

cops

1. plural of cop
2. (slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity.
   • 1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy:

     "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.

   • 1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan:

     I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive on the scene

cops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cop

cops

1. (UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
   • 1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry:

     It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops […]

• COSP, CPOs, PCOS, PCSO, POCs, PoCs, scop

cops

1. plural of cop

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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cops m

1. plural of cop

From co- +‎ ops.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoːps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔps]

cōps (genitive cōpis); third-declension one-termination adjective (Old Latin)

1. abounding in, rich, copious

   Synonym: cōpiōsus

   Antonym: inops

Not attested in the nominative singular; but compare inops.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• cōpia

• “cōps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cops”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• copis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

cops m

1. alternative form of cosp