copless

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adjective

Lacking cops; void of police.

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Meanings

adjectivecopless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableLacking cops; void of police.

    This park is not copless, so please don't go topless.

    1991, Brian K. Roberts, "Brush with Greatness", The Simpsons, seen written on a sign
    2 more examples

    It was about two and a half miles from our house to the center of our little village, and by the time I'd finished sluicing across lawns and hydroplaning over the copless streets, I was a single, giant molecule of water as I stepped into the ice cream parlor with the famous name.

    2008, Todd Komarnicki, War

    Back in Manhattan meatspace, what she ends up doing is somehow passing through the shadowy copless cross streets to Tenth Avenue and finding headed uptown a curb-to-curb abundance of lighted alphanumerics on cheerful yellow rooftops […].

    2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

Origin

From cop + -less.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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