cop the bun

verb

To take the biscuit; to top everything else.

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Meanings

verbcop the bun (third-person singular simple present cops the bun, present participle copping the bun, simple past and past participle copped the bun)

present singular third person cops the bun · participle present copping the bun · participle past copped the bun · past copped the bun

  1. datedrareTo take the biscuit; to top everything else.

    But that which "cops the bun" Is your sound crack about brave Jack, "The Man behind the Gun!"

    1894 June 2, Punch
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    "Tell me," he demanded, "how to throw a man over my head and break his neck, for I am going to kill you, and I wish to know this thing before you die." Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.

    1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IX, in The Land That Time Forgot
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