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Cop vs Murderer - What's the difference?

cop | murderer |

As nouns the difference between cop and murderer

is that cop is plait, braid (of hair) while murderer is a person who commits murder.

cop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) coppe, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A spider.

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) , from (etyl) kapia, to buy.

    Verb

    (copp)
  • to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take
  • * 2005 , Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home , Simon & Schuster, page 10:
    • Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.
  • to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
    • When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father
  • to steal
  • to adopt
    • No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.
  • to admit, especially to a crime.
    • I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
    Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
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    • Derived terms
    * cop a feel * cop a plea * cop off * cop on * cop out, cop-out

    Etymology 3

    Short for above, i.e. a criminal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.
    • Synonyms
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    Etymology 4

    (etyl) cop, copp, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
  • (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
  • * Drayton
    • Cop they used to call / The tops of many hills.
  • (obsolete) The head.
  • A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
  • (architecture, military) A merlon.

    • Anagrams

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    References

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    See also

    * not much cop ----

    murderer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who commits murder.
  • *1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • *:It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty
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  • *:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer .

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * murderess

    Related terms

    * murder * murderess

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns