copped

Verb

cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)

1. (dated, informal, transitive) To capture or arrest someone.
2. (informal, transitive, African-American Vernacular) 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, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 4
3. (transitive) 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, transitive) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
5. (transitive) 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 mine2017, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell, “Copycat”, in Don't Smile at Me, performed by Billie Eilish
6. (transitive) To adopt.
   • No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.

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