Copとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English coppe, from 古期英語 *coppe, as in ātorcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from 古期英語 copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gū- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.

名詞

cop (複数形 cops)

1. (obsolete) A spider.

語源 2

Uncertain. Perhaps from 古期英語 copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, to grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, to hijack”), from West Frisian kapia (“to take away”), from Old Frisian kapia (“to buy”). Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

動詞

cop (三人称単数 現在形 cops, 現在分詞 copping, 過去形および過去分詞形 copped)

1. (transitive, formerly dialectal, now informal) To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
   • 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10:

     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.

2. (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

   When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father

3. (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
4. (transitive) To steal.
5. (transitive) To adopt.

   No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.

6. (transitive) To earn by bad behavior.
   • 1992, Roxanne Shanté (lyrics), “Straight Razor”, in The Bitch Is Back:

     You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick
     What do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back,
     Open the trunk to the nickel-plate 38?
     “Wait wait, baby, please!”
     That's the shit he's coppin when he’s down on both his knees

7. (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) to admit, especially to a crime.

   I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?

   Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".

   • 2005, Elmore Leonard, Mr. Paradise, page 295:

     He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter

派生語

語源 3

Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from cop (“one who cops”) above, in reference to arresting criminals.

名詞

cop (複数形 cops)

1. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:police officer

派生語

• cophouse
• cop shop

語源 4

From Middle English cop, coppe, from 古期英語 cop, copp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gu-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

名詞

cop (複数形 cops)

1. (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
2. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
   • Drayton

     Cop they used to call / The tops of many hills.

3. (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself. [14th-15th c.]

   The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.

4. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
5. (architecture, military) A merlon.

参照

• “Cop” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.

参考

• not much cop

アナグラム

• CPO, OCP, OPC, PCO, POC, PoC