• vt. 抓住
• n. 巡警，警官
• n. (Cop)人名；(塞、捷)措普；(土)焦普

來自詞根cap, 抓，握，詞源同capture, captive.

cop (v.)

1704, northern British dialect, "to seize, to catch," perhaps ultimately from Middle French caper "seize, to take," from Latin capere "to take" (see capable); or from Dutch kapen "to take," from Old Frisian capia "to buy," which is related to Old English ceapian (see cheap). Related: Copped; copping.

cop (n.)

"policeman," 1859, abbreviation of earlier copper (n.2), 1846, from cop (v.).

1. Malone, a cop, felt as much an outsider as any of them.

馬隆是個警察，他跟他們一樣都覺得自己像個外人。

來自柯林斯例句

2. To decline to vote is a cop-out.

拒絕投票就是一種逃避。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.

電影回避式的結局讓人不滿。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Not turning up was just a cop-out.

不露面只不過是在逃避而已。

來自《權威詞典》

5. The cop told him to button his lip.

警察叫他閉嘴.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》