cops

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UK/kɒps/US/kɑps/Australia/kɔps/

noun

The police, considered as a group entity.

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Meanings

cops1

noun
  1. pluralplural of cop
  2. slangThe police, considered as a group entity.

    "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.

    1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy
    1 more example

    I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive on the scene

    1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of cop

cops2

noun
  1. UKdialectalThe connecting crook of a harrow.

    It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops[…]

    1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry

COPs3

noun
  1. pluralplural of COP

Cops4

noun
  1. pluralplural of Cop

CoPs5

noun
  1. pluralplural of CoP

Translations

French vaches, bœufs
  • vacheslaw enforcement
  • bœufslaw enforcement
  • chienslaw enforcement
  • vandameslaw enforcement
  • cogneslaw enforcement
  • cakeslaw enforcement
German Bullen
  • Bullenlaw enforcement
Polish gliny, psy
  • glinylaw enforcement
  • psylaw enforcement
Portuguese tiras, bófia
  • tiraslaw enforcement
  • bófialaw enforcement
Turkish aynasızlar
  • aynasızlarlaw enforcement

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cops

topspopschopsmopscopsefopsslopspull out all the stops
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Sounds the same

copsecopsecopse

Anagrams

scop
Cite this entry
APA

cops. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cops

MLA

“cops.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cops. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cops,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cops.

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