cop shop
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022
Fact is, though, you're getting more security from local police departments than you're getting from America's biggest cop shop.
From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021
The third season takes us to another cop shop in another town and presents a story that amply incorporates the perspectives of two cops and a con artist, all of them women.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2020
Wasn’t my fault he caught that charge; hey, I was just the cop shop reporter calling districts and reporting arrests.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2012
“Giles Noak. Might have known. Want to spend another night in Upton cop shop, do you?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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