Cop

Policemen have been called cops or coppers in the English-speaking world at least since the 1850s, and perhaps even earlier than that.

Some claim that the term arose from the copper badges or copper buttons on their uniforms, or perhaps as an acronym of 'Constable on Patrol' or 'Chief of Police', but these claims should be dismissed as fanciful.

Cop is an old English term for a policeman and is probably derived from the verb 'to cop' as in to seize or catch (from the Latin capere – to take).

To cop is to seize or catch, and a copper is a person who seizes or catches.

I cop:

He cops:

 They cop:

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