cop
noun/kɒp/
/kɑːp/
(informal)Idioms - a police officer
警察 - Somebody call the cops!
去个人报警啊！ - children playing cops and robbers
在玩警察抓小偷的孩子们 - a TV cop show
电视警察节目
Extra ExamplesTopics Law and justicec1- Lots of children play cops and robbers.
很多孩子扮演警察和强盗。 - Penn stars as a rookie cop out to prove himself.
佩恩饰演一名新秀警察，想要证明自己。 - The film is based on the true story of a New York cop.
本片以一名纽约警察的真实故事为蓝本。 - The star was stopped by traffic cops on Friday night.
这位明星于周五晚上被交通警察拦下。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCop is used before these nouns:- car
- killer
- show
- …
Word Originearly 18th cent. (as a verb): perhaps from obsolete cap ‘arrest’, from Old French caper ‘seize’, from Latin capere. The noun is from copper ‘police officer’. - Somebody call the cops!
Idioms
it’s a fair cop
- (British English, informal, humorous) used by somebody who is caught doing something wrong, to say that they admit that they are wrong
（当场被抓获时说）这是罪有应得，抓得有理
not much cop
- (British English, slang) not very good
不好的；差的 - He's not much cop as a singer.
他的歌唱得不怎么样。
- He's not much cop as a singer.