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coop
1[ koop, koop ]
noun
- an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- any small or narrow place.
- Slang. a prison.
- Sometimes Facetious. a cooperative, especially the cooperative bookstore of a college or university.
verb (used with object)
- to place in or as if in a coop; confine narrowly (often followed by up or in ).
verb (used without object)
- Slang. (of a police officer) to park and sleep inside one's patrol car while on duty.
coop.
2abbreviation for
- cooperative.
coop
1/ kuːp /
noun
- a cage or small enclosure for poultry or small animals
- a small narrow place of confinement, esp a prison cell
- a wicker basket for catching fish
verb
- tr; often foll by up or in to confine in a restricted area
coop.
2abbreviation for
- cooperative
coop
3/ ˈkəʊˌɒp /
noun
- a cooperative, cooperative society, or shop run by a cooperative society
coop
4the internet domain name for
- a cooperative
Other Words From
- un·coop verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Origin of coop1
Word History and Origins
Origin of coop1
Idioms and Phrases
- fly the coop, Informal. to run off; depart abruptly; escape:
We stopped to see my sister, but she'd flown the coop.
More idioms and phrases containing coop
see fly the coop .Example Sentences
So is the literal “turkey point of view” offered by the GoPros attached to the turkeys as they run around the coop.
Not in hell, but in my own chicken coop, which does not cost $1500 to enter.
This renewable (I mean renewed every single damn day) bio-energy (otherwise known as fetid rot) helps keep the coop warm.
I had to chase the chickens back into the coop and close the door so I could finish with the Augean Stables of the chicken pen.
Meditations on the pursuit of happiness while cleaning the chicken coop.
Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
He sat in a confined little metal coop of a cabin, hardly enough in which to stand erect.
The midget recovered Alfred's knife from the dust and walked over to the trailer that he noted had a wooden coop of slats aboard.
One of them struck a hen-coop on the Saratoga, in which one of the sailors kept a fighting cock.
Then I went around and picked them off the branches until I had half a dozen plump ones stowed away in a coop.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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