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cophouses

cophouses is the plural of cophouse.

Meaning of cophouse

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

Questions about cophouses

What is cophouses the plural of?
Cophouses is the plural of cophouse.

Words near cophouses in the dictionary

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

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