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cop shop
noun
- slang.a police station
Example Sentences
And Siddall shelled out about $1,700 to rent emergency vehicles and related gear from Cop Shop L.A., the same concern that outfits many police procedurals and music videos.
“We don’t want this to be a cop shop. But at the same time, the reality is that people who have the experience have it in police agencies.”
Even if this was meant as gallows humor down at the cop shop — which is how they’re spinning it — it still shows utter contempt for the victim, the public and the system of accountability.
There are no tourist-bait boutiques — no farmers’ markets or dinky little tearooms — just a handful of relics: a dingy pub, a school, a half-stocked grocery store, a one-man cop shop.
Populating the novel is the usual cast of characters, foremost among them the cop shop’s inimitable secretary, Agatino Catarella, who blends obsequiousness, prudery and verbal ineptitude into a patois all his own.
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