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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cop \Cop\ (k[o^]p), noun [AS. cop; cf. G. kopf head. Cf. {Cup}, {Cob}.]
1. The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [Obs.]
Cop they used to call The tops of many hills. --Drayton.
2. A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
3. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
4. (Mil. Arch.) Same as {Merlon}.
5. A policeman. [Slang]
{Cop waste}, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cop
noun: uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: {bull}, {copper}, {fuzz}, {pig}]
verb
1: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: {hook}, {snitch}, {thieve}, {knock off}, {glom}]
2: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" [syn: {collar}, {nail}, {apprehend}, {arrest}, {pick up}, {nab}] [also: {copping}, {copped}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "cop": Dogberry, John Law, abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bluecoat, bobby, boost, borrow, bull, cabbage, clout, complex cone, cone, conelet, conoid, copper, cornet, crib, defraud, dick, embezzle, extort, filch, flatfoot, flattie, funnel, fuzz, gendarme, gumshoe, heat, hook, ice-cream cone, lift, make off with, man, nab, nip, officer, palm, peeler, pig, pilfer, pinch, pine cone, poach, purloin, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shamus, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, the cops, the fuzz, the law, thieve, walk off with
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
COP Character-Oriented Protocol
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