cop a feel

present singular third person cops a feel · participle present copping a feel · participle past copped a feel · past copped a feel

1. colloquialintransitiveTo sexually fondle someone in a covert manner.First known use 1922

   Connor: All right. If cop a feel I must, then cop a feel I sh... What is that? I don't know. Wait. What does that mean? / Lise: No, finish it. / Connor: Then cop a feel I shall. No idea what that means, though. / Lise: "Cop a feel" means "grab a girl's boob".

   2025, Love On the Spectrum, season 3, episode 4, Connor and Lise (actors)

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   No sooner had the Good Girl got into the car, then Aubrey took one hand from the steering wheel, put it around Bertha's waist and Stepped on the Gas. But, strange as it may seem, although Aubrey was Copping the Feels something outrageous, Bertha made no resistance and said not a word.

   1922 February, Callimachus Balzoff, “The Working Girl and the Gas-hound”, in Hot Dog, page 22

   Bear's been gettin’ real forgetful lately,” Snake was telling his bro. “While we were partyin’ at the bar last night, he copped a feel on a chick by mistake.” “Thought it was his ol’ lady, huh?” commented the bro. “Naw, that’s just it—it was!”

   1990 July, “Hustler Humor”, in Hustler, volume 17, number 1, →ISSN, page 80, column 2