Meaning of Cops | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The connecting crook of a harrow.
   UK, dialectal
2. The police, considered as a group entity.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“"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.”

“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”

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

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