Cops vs Coss - What's the difference?
cops | coss |
(slang) ; Police officers.
* 1986 , Liam Sternberg (performed by The Bangles), Walk Like an Egyptian
The police, considered as a group entity.
* 1906 ,
(cop)
(UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
* 1807 , The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry
(India) A measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
*1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, pp. 410-11:
*:A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.
As nouns the difference between cops and coss
is that cops is plural of lang=en; Police officers while coss is a measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.As a verb cops
is third-person singular of cop.cops
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(head)- All the cops in the donut shops say, "Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo"
- "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Noun
- It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops