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Definition of Cop

Cop

The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

Same as Merlon.

A policeman.

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Cop Quotations

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
Edward Abbey

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
Martin Scorsese

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
Kin Hubbard

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.
Mariska Hargitay

It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.
Geena Davis

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
Christopher Meloni

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
Charlton Heston

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.
Judd Nelson

Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!
Sherilyn Fenn

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
Jim Coleman

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
Jim Coleman

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
Aaron Eckhart

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
Jim Coleman

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
Yancy Butler

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.
William Petersen

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
Joseph Wambaugh

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
Joseph Wambaugh

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.
Dave Reichert

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.
Edward Burns

As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
Joseph Wambaugh

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
Daryl Gates

In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.
Mathieu Kassovitz

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.
Nancy McKeon

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
Joseph Wambaugh

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
Evan Hunter

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
John Leguizamo

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Cop Translations

cop in German is erwischen
cop in Swedish is snuten, polis

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