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plural of cop examples
(slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity. quotations
"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.
1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy
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
1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan
third-person singular simple present indicative of cop examples
(UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow. quotations examples
It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops […]
1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry