cop

• vt.押収する
• n. パトロール警官、警察官
• n. （警官）人の名前；（セルビア語、チェコ語）Tzop；（トルコ語）Jop.

語源はcapture（捕獲）、captive（捕虜）。

cop (v.)

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.).

1. マロン、a cop 、felt as much an outsider as any of them.

マロンは警察官で、彼らと同じように自分が部外者のように感じている。

2.To decline to vote is a cop ?out.

投票拒否は逃避である。

3.The film 's ending is an unsatisfactory cop -out.

映画回避式の結末に不満がある。

4.Not turning up was just a cop -out.

姿を見せないのは逃げているだけだ。

5.The cop told him to button his lip.

警察は黙れと言った。