cop

name

1. Abbreviation of ConocoPhillips.

   “The companies said the deal will make the new Conoco (COP) the largest independent oil-and-gas company in the United States, with daily production surpassing 1.5 million barrels. (Diversified oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron (CVX) pump more oil.)”

noun

1. Initialism of close of play.
2. Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.

   “COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).”

   “COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.”

3. Initialism of common operational picture.
4. Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.
5. Initialism of center of pressure.
6. Initialism of coefficient of performance.
7. Initialism of code of practice.
8. Initialism of community of property.
9. Initialism of cholesterol oxidation product.

verb

Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

1. To capture or arrest someone.
2. To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.

   “You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.”

   “He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.”

3. 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.”

   “I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.”

4. To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
5. To steal.

   “Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine”

6. To adopt.

   “No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.”

7. To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

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

   “Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".”

8. To recruit a prostitute into the stable.

   “I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.' She laid the bearskin and freaked the joint off with her lights and other crap. Except for the fake stars it was a fair mock-up of her pad where I had copped her.”

   “The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.”

9. To take (a look, glance, etc.).

   “Cop an eyeful of this!”