cops

plural of cop

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of cop
  2. The police, considered as a group entity.
    • "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. - 1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy:
    • 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 - 1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob...

Noun UK, dialectal

  1. The connecting crook of a harrow.
    • It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops[…] - 1807, The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry:

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cop