Dictionary

copicide en · NOUN

Etymology

From cop + -icide.

Meanings

1. (informal) A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her.
   • Carrie told a police negotiator she didn't have the nerve to shoot herself. Later, she'd tell psychiatrist Gwen Levitt she was hoping to commit what the police call "copicide," in which a suicidal person gets the police to shoot him or her. 1999, E. J. Montini, "Prosecuting Mentally Ill Is Insane", The Arizona Republic, 20 June 1999 (reprinted in the Observer-Reporter, 4 July 1999)
2. (informal) The act of killing a police officer.
   • More weird media excretion: Time Warner homey Ice-T can't say enough nice things about the Man, his employer. Time Warner executives were so supportive during his recent difficulties, he says. They were exceptionally supportive of his totally private and personal decision to recall his ode to copicide from record stores. 1992 October, “It's getting late”, in Spy:

Forms

Synonyms

suicide by cop (suicide by provoking a police officer to shoot) · death by cop (suicide by provoking a police officer to shoot)