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Plural of cop

regular plural

The plural of cop is cops.

Forms of cop

Singularcop /kɒp/
Pluralcops /kɒps/
Countablecountable

Cops in a sentence

  • In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses.2013, George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times...
  • The cops have picked up the man they were looking for.From the entry pick up
  • It was a rip-roaring bar fight, until the cops broke it up.From the entry rip-roaring
  • Don't go around telling cops that, or they'll lock you up in the nutfarm.From the entry nutfarm
  • We had the car going flat chat down the highway when the cops pulled us over.From the entry flat chat

Meaning of cop

  1. verb To capture or arrest someone.
  2. verb To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
  3. verb To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

Full definition of cop

Questions about the plural of cop

What is the plural of cop?
The plural of cop is cops.
Is cop countable?
Cop is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cop (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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