A cop is a slang term used to describe police, constables, sheriffs, prison guards and other law enforcement officers. The usage of the word "cop" to refer to law enforcement may have been derived from the verb cop, which means to take or seize and does not come from any acronym, such as Constables On Patrol. It may also be derived from the word "copper", a slang term used in reference to the copper metal sheriff badges were made of. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=cop

Other meanings

It may also refer to:

Organizations

• Conference of Parties (COP) of United Nations Conventions. See Examples: UN-CBD, UN-FCCC
• Center for Organisk Psykoterapi, Center for Organic Psychotherapy, Denmark
• Comite Olimpico de Portugal, Olympic Committee of Portugal
• ConocoPhillips, with COP as its stock symbol
• Council of Presidents, the executive leadership board of the Vermont State Colleges

Places

• Canada Olympic Park
• Centralny Okreg Przemyslowy, Central Industrial Region, Poland
• City Of Prineville, Oregon

Law & Business

• Change order proposal - An agreement in writing affirming that alterations are to be made to a project. Additions in costs, time to completion, and conditions are outlined. Often seen in one time projects where a section of the work cannot be easily undone, such as construction of houses.

Science

• Center of pressure
• Colloid osmotic pressure
• Center of projection
• Coefficient of performance, in thermodynamics, the ratio of the output heat of a pump to the supplied work
• Coatomer protein, a transport protein involves in vesicular transportation between rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus

Computer science

• C Object Processor
• Common Operational Picture
• Computer Operating Properly, in embedded systems

Entertainment

• Cop , a 1988 thriller film
• Alkaline Trio song from their 1998 album Goddamnit

Other

• Commissioner of police, Chief of police or Constable of police
• Community oriented policing
• The ISO 4217 code for Colombian peso
• The ICAO airline designator for Copper State Air Service, United States
• Code of Points, a gymnastics scoring regulation
• Community of practice, a collaborative method of social learning
• Certified Outsourcing Professional
• A component in some place names, e.g. Mow Cop. Here it came from an old word for "head".
• A component of several other words involving "Head", as above, from the same source as the German "Kopf". Eg. The Middle English word for a snake, Attercop, meaning "Poison-Head" evolved into the word Adder. Cop, Kop, or Kopf survives in many English words, always referring to 'Head'.
• From the original word Capere, cop also refers to catching in a general sense, most usually in British English. Catching a cricket ball in flight, for instance, is referred to as a Cop. Further, it encompasses a more abstract use of catching, such as 'copping trouble' when one can expect to be reprimanded. RAF pilots and other Military branches used it to refer to catching death or destruction. ("His plane copped it over Berlin, I'm afraid"). In slang it can refer to taking ownership in an abstract sense. Somebody can 'cop lucky', criminals can 'cop to their crime', as in confess, and from similar use the word has entered into American English, with lawyers discussing criminals 'copping a plea' (plea bargaining) to reduce their punishments.

References

See also

• Cops (disambiguation)
• Copse, a small lowland woodland

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