cop

noun7

1. •
   (informal) a police officer or a guard in a prison
2. •
   A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
3. •
   A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
4. •
   (historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

   • In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ... — 2013
5. •
   A merlon.
6. •
   (no longer used) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

   • Cop they vse to call / The tops of many Hils — 1622
7. •
   (no longer used) A spider.

verb9

1. •
   (informal) 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. — 1984
2. •
   (slang) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.

   • 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. — 2011
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.
4. •
   (slang) 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".
5. •
   (slang) To take (a look, glance, etc.).

   • Cop an eyeful of this!
6. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) To capture or arrest someone.
7. •
   To adopt.

   • No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
8. •
   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 — 2017
9. •
   (slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

noun10

1. •
   Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.
2. •
   Initialism of code of practice.
3. •
   Initialism of coefficient of performance.
4. •
   (UK) Initialism of close of play.
5. •
   Initialism of center of pressure.
6. •
   Abbreviation of Code of Points.
7. •
   (South-Africa) Initialism of community of property.
8. •
   Initialism of common operational picture.
9. •
   Initialism of cholesterol oxidation product.
10. •
    (Ireland) Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.