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copless en · ADJ

Etymology

From cop + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Lacking cops; void of police.
    • This park is not copless, so please don't go topless. 1991, Brian K. Roberts, "Brush with Greatness", The Simpsons, seen written on a sign
    • Back in Manhattan meatspace, what she ends up doing is somehow passing through the shadowy copless cross streets to Tenth Avenue and finding headed uptown a curb-to-curb abundance of lighted alphanumerics on cheerful yellow rooftops […]. 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge:
    • It was about two and a half miles from our house to the center of our little village, and by the time I'd finished sluicing across lawns and hydroplaning over the copless streets, I was a single, giant molecule of water as I stepped into the ice cream parlor with the famous name. 2008, Todd Komarnicki, War: