(informal) A security guard employed to provide security at a shopping mall.

(informal) A bungling, incompetent policeman.

plural of Keystone Cop

(slang) Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out. / (slang) An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.

(intransitive, slang) to leave school early

(idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner. / To plead guilty and ask for mercy.

(informal, intransitive) To stealthily fondle someone in a sexual manner.

(UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, slang) A police station.

Synonym of suicide by cop / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see death, by, cop.

(informal) A suicide in which a person points a firearm at an armed police officer to provoke them to shoot.