kop

¹ American  

[kop] / kɒp /

noun

1. a hill.

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kop. ² American  

abbreviation

1. kopeck.

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kop British  

/ kɒp /

noun

1. a prominent isolated hill or mountain in southern Africa See inselberg

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Etymology

Origin of kop

1825–35; < Afrikaans: literally, head, hence high or top part. See cop ³

Example Sentences

"Too much in his kop," and she tapped her forehead.

From Benita, an African romance by Haggard, Henry Rider

The huts were built in a wide ring round a compound full of bush and big trees, and the whole camp was pitched half-way up the slope of the biggest kop.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia

Then I pushed on an’ on till I went over a ridge into another kloof, an’ through that to another kop, standing up above the wood in a mass of stone.

From Tales from the Veld by Glanville, Ernest

Und denn I gissed Madilda Yane Und she shlog me on de kop, Und de gompany fited mit daple-lecks Dill de coonshtable made oos shtop.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

Our kop life is becoming a little monotonous but we manage to get on.

From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by Burne, C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate)