noun a barrel or cask for liquor.
2. coop ·noun a cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
3. coop ·vt to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
4. coop ·noun an inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
5. coop ·vt to confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp;
usually followed by up, sometimes by in.