COOP


Meaning of COOP in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

chicken

Kalchu went to the chicken coop and lifted the hatch.

The night came down around us, and it was dark by the time we reached the chicken coop .

Snared rabbits: slept in a chicken coop: down in the underworld of docks.

One burned the chicken coop to the ground.

She walked round and lifted one of the slats from the roof of the lean-to chicken coop .

When the men were building a new chicken coop , she would go out and help in whatever way she could.

Apparently it's £50K on the table, £30K in the shower and £75K in the chicken coop ...

He would go out and wander over to the chicken coop .

■ VERB

fly

Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them.

If a hawk flies over their coop , they scurry to shelter; if a pigeon, they do not.

Plus it discourages funds that have already flown the coop from changing course and heading home again.

The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

fly the coop

All my children have flown the coop now.

Plus it discourages funds that have already flown the coop from changing course and heading home again.

The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop.

Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Another story tells of a fox that stole a chicken from his coop and returned the bird alive.

If a hawk flies over their coop , they scurry to shelter; if a pigeon, they do not.

One burned the chicken coop to the ground.

Plus it discourages funds that have already flown the coop from changing course and heading home again.

She walked round and lifted one of the slats from the roof of the lean-to chicken coop .

Since the crisis, the manager explains, the coop has not been able to afford fertilizers.

Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them.

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