Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”)

(informal) A police officer or prison guard.

(obsolete) A spider.

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

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

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

(architecture, military) A merlon.

(transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.

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

(transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

(transitive) To steal.

(transitive) To adopt.

(intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

(transitive, slang) Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.