cop

To capture or arrest someone.datedinformaltransitive

To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.informaltransitive

• 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.

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

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

To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.slangtransitive

To steal.transitive

• 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

To adopt.transitive

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

To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.intransitiveslangusually

• I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
• Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".

To recruit a prostitute into the stable.slangtransitive

• 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.

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

• Cop an eyeful of this!

A police officer or prison guard.informal

A spider.obsolete

A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.

A merlon.

A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.historical

• In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...
• Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.

A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

The top, summit, especially of a hill.obsolete

• Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils