Meaning of Cop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A police officer or prison guard.
   informal
2. Alternative letter-case form of COP (“conference of the parties”).
   alt-of
3. Initialism of close of play.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
4. Abbreviation of ConocoPhillips.
   abbreviation, alt-of
5. A spider.
   obsolete
6. The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
7. Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
8. The top, summit, especially of a hill.
   obsolete
9. Initialism of common operational picture.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
10. A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
11. Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.
    Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
12. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
13. Initialism of coefficient of performance.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
14. A merlon.
15. Initialism of code of practice.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
16. Initialism of community of property.
    South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
17. Initialism of cholesterol oxidation product.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils”

“[…] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.”

“In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...”

“Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.”

“COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).”

“COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.”

“The companies said the deal will make the new Conoco (COP) the largest independent oil-and-gas company in the United States, with daily production surpassing 1.5 million barrels. (Diversified oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron (CVX) pump more oil.)”

“Rachel Kyte, a former senior World Bank official who is now dean of the Fletcher school at Tufts University in the US, and a close observer of Cops, said the war in Ukraine and the UK’s geopolitical relations were also key reasons to go.”

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