All cop synonyms
cop
C c verb cop
- receive β to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- glom β to steal.
- defalcate β to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- procure β to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- arrive at β to reach by traveling
- make it big β If you make it big, you become successful or famous.
- come into β If someone comes into some money, some property, or a title, they inherit it.
- run in β an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
- get one's hands on β (Idiomatic) To get; to obtain; to secure.
- stuck up β snobbishly conceited.
- pirating β a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- lift β to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- rip off β a rent made by ripping; tear.
- pirated β a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- rob β to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
- swipe β a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- deal in β to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- moonlighting β the light of the moon.
- buy into β If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- take over β the act of taking.
- treed β planted with trees; wooded: a treed hillside.
- lay hold of β to seize or grasp
- appropriate β Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
- apprehend β If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- obtain β to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- snipe β any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- walk off with β to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- acquire β If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
noun cop
- peace officer β a civil officer appointed to preserve the public peace, as a sheriff or constable.
- police officer β any policeman or policewoman; patrolman or patrolwoman.
- patrolwoman β a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.