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cop it en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang) To get into trouble; to be punished.
    • He shook his black, dishevelled hair ominously and said: "You'll cop it for this!" 1966, Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks, My Childhood:
    • I suppose he must have been all right, because you don't half cop it for killing a soldier. 1970, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Ninepenny Flute:
    • "Oh, you'll cop it," said the recruit. "The sergeant has been here twice looking for you." 1915, Lyman Abbott, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
copped it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
copped it Tense=Past lexicographic
copping it Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cops it Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

catch it · catch hell · get it