Cooping vs. Pooping

Cooping was a form of electoral fraud in the United States cited in relation to the death of Edgar Allan Poe in October 1849, by which citizens were kidnapped off the street and forced to vote, often several times over, for an election candidate. According to several of Poe's biographers, so-called 'cooping gangs' or 'election gangs' working for a political candidate would hold random victims in a room (the "coop") and ply them with alcohol to get them to comply or face beatings.

An enclosed superstructure at the stern of a ship.

A small enclosure or cage, as for poultry or small animals.

A poop deck.

A cramped or uncomfortably confined space.

Excrement.

(Slang) A jail or prison.

To break over the stern of (a ship). Used of a wave.

To confine or keep (poultry, for example) in a coop.

To take (a wave) over the stern.

To confine in a small or cramped space. Often used with up

To cause to become fatigued; tire

present participle of coop

To defecate.

The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.

To defecate in (one's clothes or bed, for example).

(nautical) The act of a wave (or other vessel) striking the stern of a vessel.

present participle of poop

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.