Cope vs. Cop

Copeverb

(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.

‘I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.’;

Copnoun

(obsolete) A spider.

Copeverb

To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.

Copnoun

A police officer or prison guard.

Copeverb

(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.

Copnoun

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

Copeverb

(transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.

Copnoun

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

Copeverb

(intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

Copnoun

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

‘The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.’;

Copeverb

(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.

Copnoun

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

Copeverb

(obsolete) To exchange or barter.

Copnoun

A merlon.

Copeverb

(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.

Copverb

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

Copeverb

(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.

Copverb

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

‘When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father’;

Copeverb

(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

Copverb

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

Copenoun

A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.

Copverb

(transitive) To steal.

Copenoun

Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.

Copverb

(transitive) To adopt.

‘No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.’;

Copenoun

(literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.

Copverb

(transitive) To earn by bad behavior.

Copenoun

(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.

Copverb

to admit, especially to a crime.

‘I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?’; ‘Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".’;

Copenoun

(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.

Copnoun

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

‘Cop they used to callThe tops of many hills.’;

Copenoun

An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

Copnoun

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

Copenoun

A covering for the head.

Copnoun

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

Copenoun

Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

Copnoun

Same as Merlon.

Copenoun

An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.

‘A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes.’;

Copnoun

A policeman.

Copenoun

An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

Copnoun

uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

Copenoun

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.

Copverb

take by theft;

‘Someone snitched my wallet!’;

Copeverb

To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

‘Some bending down and coping toward the earth.’;

Copverb

take into custody;

‘the police nabbed the suspected criminals’;

Copeverb

To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

Copnoun

a police officer

‘a cop in a patrol car gave chase’;

Copeverb

To exchange or barter.

Copnoun

shrewdness; practical intelligence

‘he had the cop-on to stay clear of Hugh Thornley’;

Copeverb

To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

‘Horatio, thou art e'en as just a manAs e'er my conversation coped withal.’;

Copnoun

a conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.

Copeverb

To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; - usually followed by with.

‘Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.’; ‘Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.’;

Copverb

catch or arrest (an offender)

‘he was copped for speeding’;

Copeverb

To bargain for; to buy.

Copverb

incur (something unwelcome)

‘England's captain copped most of the blame’; ‘an easy journey, if we don't cop any rough weather’;

Copeverb

To make return for; to requite; to repay.

‘three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,We freely cope your courteous pains withal.’;

Copverb

get into trouble

‘will you cop it from your dad if you get back late?’;

Copeverb

To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

‘I love to cope him in these sullen fits.’; ‘They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.’;

Copverb

be killed

‘he almost copped it in a horrific accident’;

Copenoun

brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

Copverb

receive or attain (something welcome)

‘she copped an award for her role in the film’;

Copeverb

come to terms or deal successfully with;

‘We got by on just a gallon of gas’; ‘They made do on half a loaf of bread every day’;

Copverb

obtain (an illegal drug)

‘he copped some hash for me’;

Cope

The cope (known in Latin as pluviale 'rain coat' or cappa 'cape') is a liturgical vestment, more precisely a long mantle or cloak, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp. It may be of any liturgical colour.

Copverb

strike (an attitude or pose)

‘I copped an attitude—I acted real tough’;