verb

• (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
  "You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants."
• (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
  "When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father."
• (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
• (transitive) To steal.
  "Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine"

noun

• (informal) A police officer or prison guard.

noun

• (obsolete) A spider.

noun

• (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
• (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
  "Cop they vſe to call / The tops of many Hils"
• (architecture, military) A merlon.