Cod vs. Cop — What's the Difference?

Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus Gadus is commonly not called cod (Alaska pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus).

A police officer

See Atlantic cod.

Shrewdness; practical intelligence

Any of various marine fishes of the family Gadidae, which includes the Atlantic cod and the haddock.

A conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.

(Archaic) A husk or pod.

Catch or arrest (an offender)

(Archaic) The scrotum.

Receive or attain (something welcome)

(Obsolete) A bag.

Strike (an attitude or pose)

(obsolete) A small bag or pouch.

A police officer.

A husk or integument; a pod.

One that regulates certain behaviors or actions

The cocoon of a silkworm.

A cone-shaped or cylindrical roll of yarn or thread wound on a spindle.

The scrotum (also in plural).

Chiefly British A summit or crest, as of a hill.

A pillow or cushion.

To get hold of; gain or win

The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.

To perceive by one of the senses

The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).

To take unlawfully or without permission; steal.

The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).

To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.

Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.

(transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).

To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

A joke or an imitation.

(transitive) To steal.

A stupid or foolish person.

(transitive) To adopt.

Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).

(transitive) To earn by bad behavior.

(Polari) Bad.

To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

To attempt to deceive or confuse; To joke; To kid.

Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.

A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

(informal) A police officer or prison guard.

A small bag or pouch.

(obsolete) A spider.

The scrotum.

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

A pillow or cushion.

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

Lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

Major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters

A merlon.

Fool or hoax;

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

Harass with persistent criticism or carping;

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

Payment due by the recipient on delivery;

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

Collecting the charges upon delivery;

Same as Merlon.

A policeman.

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

Take by theft;

Take into custody;