A cop is a word used to describe Constables, Sheriffs, Police, Prison Guards and other Law Enforcement Officers. The term 'Cop' is shortened form of 'copper'. 'Copper' is a slang noun derived from the verb 'cop' meaning 'to catch or capture'. A 'copper' is a police officer that captures or cops criminals. The word 'cop' in its noun form is a shortened version of 'copper'.^[1]

It may also mean:

Organizations

• Center for Organisk Psykoterapi in Denmark (English: Center for Organic Psychotherapy)
• Comité Olímpico de Portugal (English: Olympic Committee of Portugal)
• Conference of Parties (COP), a meeting to assess progress in dealing with climate change. See: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• ConocoPhillips, with COP as its stock symbol
• Council of Presidents, the executive leadership board of the Vermont State Colleges

Concepts

• Community of practice, a collaborative method of social learning
• Center of pressure
• Center of projection
• Coefficient of performance, in thermodynamics, the ratio of the output heat of a pump to the supplied work

Other

• Canada Olympic Park
• Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy, Central Industrial Region, Poland
• City Of Prineville, Oregon

• Colombian peso, ISO 4217
• Commissioner of Police

• Common Operational Picture
• Community of Practice
• Computer Operating Properly, in embedded systems
• COP6, the sixth conference of parties for the UNFCCC

• Code of Points

See also

• Cops (disambiguation)
• Copse, a small lowland woodland