(informal) A police officer or prison guard.

(obsolete) A spider.

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine. / (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill. / (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

(transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.

(Ireland, informal, idiomatic) to stop behaving immaturely; behave, grow up. / (Ireland, informal, UK, dialect) to come to understand; twig, cotton on

(Ireland, informal, idiomatic) Common sense.

(uncountable, UK) Initialism of close of play. / (law, politics) Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop. / (military) Initialism of common operational picture.

simple past tense and past participle of cop on

present participle of cop on

(Britain, slang) To get into trouble; to be punished.