I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a police/cop drama (= about the police )
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'The Bill' is a popular police drama.
cop shop
traffic cop
undercover policeman/cop/agent etc
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undercover detectives
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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You know the good cop , bad cop thing?
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It was a good cop / bad cop routine.
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I got bad cop , bad cop.
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Holmgren played bad cop to the hilt.
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I got bad cop , bad cop.
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Others have gone free because their prosecutors relied on junk science, jailhouse snitches or bad cops .
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This meeting, he realized, was part of some kind of good cop , bad cop balancing act Giuliani was encouraging.
corrupt
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A strong likelihood of being fitted up by corrupt cops or being casually blasted out of existence by some one's assault rifle?
fair
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It's a fair cop - honest, officer!
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Do you want me to say that it's a fair cop or something?
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And criminals are warned that from then, they won't even have time to tell police it's a fair cop .
good
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You know the good cop , bad cop thing?
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It was a good cop / bad cop routine.
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This meeting, he realized, was part of some kind of good cop , bad cop balancing act Giuliani was encouraging.
local
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It wasn't likely that it was connected to the local cop shop.
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John Navarro, the local cop who tries to put the pieces together after Nelson disappears.
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If they were real, there'd be no local cops in Emmerdale.
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However, in New Hamsphire the time granted is up to the local cop who pulls you over.
tough
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She plans his trips, is the tough cop with him and his medicine and generally seems to brighten his life.
undercover
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But it's great fun watching these little monsters give undercover cop Arnie the run-around.
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People dived aside as undercover cops ambushed a post office raid.
■ NOUN
car
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He crossed the street, carrying the book bag by its drawstrings, heading for the parked cop car .
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The cop cars that cruised by irritated him.
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A cop car was already parked there.
shop
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Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices.
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Phil, the square's resident bad egg, retrieved the battered lad from the cop shop .
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It wasn't likely that it was connected to the local cop shop .
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They've got her at Macclesfield cop shop .
show
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On cop shows , for instance, there's always a new case coming in, he said.
traffic
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Sasha says he donates about 100 roubles, or $ 3.50, a day to the traffic cops .
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Silicon Valley also is playing a major role in policing the Internet jam, like a traffic cop in downtown San Francisco.
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Tell that to Huseyin Ertan, a retired naval officer who is the Bosporus's chief traffic cop .
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As the reader might expect, I had my hands full acting like a traffic cop .
■ VERB
call
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I got Kevin to call in the cops , but they apparently couldn't find anything.
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Two nights ago, they called the cops , man.
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Another resident had complained, the two women got into a fight and Clarisa called the cops .
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And then the Boss would have to call the cops .
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He is so friendly, in fact, I want to call the cops .
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If he does, if he practices any philosophical trespass around here, I will call the cops .
kill
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When he discovers what's happened, he's forced to kill the cop as well.
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No one would expect him to enter a city where he had been arrested for killing a cop .
play
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He was playing a cop in Colors.
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Patsy Kensit plays a clairvoyant cop who sees in her mind bits and pieces of crimes before they are committed.
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Holmgren played bad cop to the hilt.
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The part of Reality is played by the cops and robbers, whose job it is to keep each other in business.
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The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it's a fair cop
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And criminals are warned that from then, they won't even have time to tell police it's a fair cop.
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Do you want me to say that it's a fair cop or something?
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It's a fair cop - honest, officer!
suicide by cop
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a motorcycle cop
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There are more criminals out there than cops to chase them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Holly Hunter is a San Francisco cop on the trail of a killer.
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I was a cop , once.
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If he's a skilled boardroom apparatchik, they say he's not much cop as a coach.
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It stars Erik Estrada, who first became famous as part of the gay motorcycle cop tandem on CHiPS.
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Nasty cop , nice cop: they were following procedure to the letter.
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Retired railroad cop and not a bad fellow for a cop.
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She knew the cops wouldn't just fine her.
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Somehow, the charm of seeing city streets swarm with uneducated, unemployable and unsupervised children is lost on the cops.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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As it was, I copped out just a little.
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I only hat, e another year here and then I cop out !
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Linda Vernon copped the grand prize this year with her new novel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As it was, I copped out just a little.
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I hope the others have been copped by the attendants.
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Mr Coffee will cop to the situation by engaging only the five basic universal appliance functions that every school child will know.
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With its packages yet to hit the street, Clarify figures its technology will cop the leadership position.
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You know, even with the beard and glasses they still copped the face in Caracas.