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cops

UK/kɒps/US/kɑps/

cops noun: the police, considered as a group entity. Also the plural of cop.

Noun (1)

cops

  1. (slang) The police, considered as a group entity.
    • "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy
    • I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive on the scene1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan

Noun (2)

cops

  1. (UK, dialectal) The connecting crook of a harrow.
    • It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops[…]1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry

Noun (3) capitalized: COPs

COPs

  1. (plural) plural of COP

Noun (4) capitalized: CoPs

CoPs

  1. (plural) plural of CoP

Noun (5) capitalized: Cops

Cops

  1. (plural) plural of Cop

Also used as

cops is also the plural of cop.

cops is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of cop.

Phrases with cops

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Words that rhyme with cops

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Questions about cops

What does cops mean?
Cops means the police, considered as a group entity.
What part of speech is cops?
Cops is a noun.
How do you pronounce cops?
Cops is pronounced /kɒps/ (UK).

Words near cops in the dictionary

  1. coproteases
  2. coproxamol
  3. coprozoic
  4. COPRs
  5. copræmia
  6. cops
  7. cops a feel
  8. cops a load of
  9. cops a plea
  10. cops and robbers
  11. cops it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cops (page history and authors); COPs (page history and authors); CoPs (page history and authors); Cops (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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