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.).
雙語例句
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.