Cop vs. Sop: What's the Difference?
Cop and Sop Definitions
Cop
A police officer.
Sop
To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.
Cop
One that regulates certain behaviors or actions
"Faced with the world recession of the early 1980s, ... the World Bank ... became a stern economic taskmaster and cop" (Richard J. Barnet).
Sop
To take up by absorption
Sop up water with a paper towel.
Cop
A cone-shaped or cylindrical roll of yarn or thread wound on a spindle.
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Sop
A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.
Cop
Chiefly British A summit or crest, as of a hill.
Sop
Something yielded to placate or soothe
Remarks that were a sop to conservative voters.
Cop
To get hold of; gain or win
A show that copped four awards.
Copped a ticket to the game.
Sop
A bribe.
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Cop
To perceive by one of the senses
"copped a quick look at the gentleman ... on the right" (Gail Sheehy).
Sop
Something entirely soaked.
Cop
To take unlawfully or without permission; steal.
Sop
A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
Cop
To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
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Sop
Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
Cop
(transitive) 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.
Sop
A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
Cop
To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
Sop
(Appalachian) Gravy.
Cop
(transitive) To steal.
Sop
(obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
Cop
(transitive) To adopt.
No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
Sop
A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
Cop
(transitive) To earn by bad behavior.
Sop
(transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
Cop
To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
Sop
(intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Cop
Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
Sop
Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.
He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
The bounded watersShould lift their bosoms higher than the shores,And make a sop of all this solid globe.
Cop
(informal) A police officer or prison guard.
Sop
Anything given to pacify; - so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
All nature is cured with a sop.
Cop
(obsolete) A spider.
Sop
A thing of little or no value.
Garlands of roses and sops in wine.
Cop
(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
Sop
To steep or dip in any liquid.
Cop
(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
Sop
Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
Cop
(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.
Sop
A concession given to mollify or placate;
The offer was a sop to my feelings
Cop
A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
Sop
A prescribed procedure to be followed routinely;
Rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries
Cop
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
Sop
Give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
Cop
A merlon.
Sop
Be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
Cop
The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
Cop they used to callThe tops of many hills.
Sop
Dip into liquid;
Sop bread into the sauce
Cop
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Sop
Mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface;
Swab the floors
Cop
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
Sop
Become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid
Cop
Same as Merlon.
Sop
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto;
Souse water on his hot face
Cop
A policeman.
Cop
Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Cop
Take by theft;
Someone snitched my wallet!
Cop
Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals
