Cop Is Copped Copping Coppers. The first shields or badges were made from copper. It also doesn't refer to the metal various police badges or.
The first shields or badges were made from copper. In New York when the Police Officer's first uniforms came out , they had bright copper buttons. The term copper was the original, unshortened word, originally used in Britain to mean "someone who captures".
Cop the noun is almost certainly a shortening of copper, which in turn derives from cop the verb.
No. police is the officially correct word. cop is informal, and it used to be considered derogatory, but it's widely used now, even by the police.
The slang term came about as a result of this. The term Copper was the original, unshortened word, originally used in Britain to mean "someone who captures". As a verb, it shows up in a great number of expressions variously dealing with "grabbing," from copping feels, attitudes, and drugs.
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