copping

[kop-ing]

noun

1. the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of copping¹

First recorded in 1785–95; cop ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

When Escobar later escaped, pressure was put on his known acquaintances to help track him down - Higuita would end up copping a harsh punishment for his high-profile association with the notorious criminal.

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Hugh got involved when he got "fed up with farmers copping a lot of flak" about their emissions.

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He hasn’t gotten where he is by questioning coaches or copping attitudes.

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“Our experiments make it all but certain that these systems are in fact training on copyrighted material,” Marcus told me, something that the companies have been coy about copping to explicitly.

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"I remember standing on the fine-leg boundary in Pretoria and copping it from South Africa fans," he says.

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