cophouse en · NOUN
Etymology
From cop + house.
Meanings
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(slang) A police station.
I had a little over two hours before I turned back into a church mouse and had to report to the head cat at the cophouse.
2007, Loren D. Estleman, American Detective, page 86:I took breakfast in a little muncheonette three doors down from the cophouse.
2009, Cornelius Kane, The Unscratchables, page 15:Public security is one of the services still under military control, as I discovered in Beijing when I and another colleague inadvertently ended up in the local cophouse.
1999, John Gittings, China through the sliding door: reporting three decades of change:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cophouses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
fi kyttis (police station (slang))