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cophouse

cophouse noun: a police station.

Noun

cophouse (plural cophouses)

  1. (slang) A police station.
    • Public security is one of the services still under military control, as I discovered in Beijing when I and another colleague inadvertently ended up in the local cophouse.1999, John Gittings, China through the sliding door: reporting three decades of change
    • I had a little over two hours before I turned back into a church mouse and had to report to the head cat at the cophouse.2007, Loren D. Estleman, American Detective, page 86

Forms of cophouse

pluralcophouses

Origin of cophouse

From cop + house.

Questions about cophouse

What does cophouse mean?
Cophouse means a police station.
What part of speech is cophouse?
Cophouse is a noun.
What is the plural of cophouse?
The plural of cophouse is cophouses.

Words near cophouse in the dictionary

  1. Cophine
  2. cophined
  3. cophining
  4. cophins
  5. cophosis
  6. cophouse
  7. cophouses
  8. cophyline
  9. cophylines
  10. cophylogenetic
  11. cophylogenies

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