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cosp

cosp is the clipping of cosplay.

Meaning of cosplay

Noun

cosplay (countable and uncountable, plural cosplays)

  1. (uncountable) The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.
    • Also the popularity can be seen in doujinshi and cosplay (costume play) and the popularity is not just junior high girls.1993 May 14, Hitoshi Doi, translating Animedia, “Animedia-February 1993 [all]”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026
  2. (countable) A skit or instance of this art or practice.
    • Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.2010, Sarah Lynne Bowman, “Historical Evolution and Cultural Permutations”, in The Functions of Role-Playing Games […], Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 29

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Proper noun capitalized: COSP

COSP

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of consumer-operated services program.

Forms of cosp

pluralcosps

Questions about cosp

What is cosp the clipping of?
Cosp is the clipping of cosplay.
What part of speech is cosp?
Cosp is a proper noun.

Words near cosp in the dictionary

  1. cosonicates
  2. cosonicating
  3. cosovereign
  4. cosovereigns
  5. cosovereignty
  6. cosp
  7. cospan
  8. cospans
  9. cospatial
  10. cospatially
  11. cospecialize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosp (page history and authors); COSP (page history and authors); cosplay (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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