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Definition coop

Etymology 1

From Middle English c?upe, cupe, from Old English c?pe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern German Kufe (“cask (feminine)”), probably from Latin c?pa, Medieval Latin c?pa (“cask”). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.

Noun

coop (plural coops)

1. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
2. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
3. (figuratively, slang) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
4. (obsolete) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.

Verb

coop (third-person singular simple present coops, present participle cooping, simple past and past participle cooped)

1. (transitive) To keep in a coop.
2. (transitive) To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
3. (transitive, intransitive, politics, historical) To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
4. (intransitive, law enforcement, slang) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty. [from 1960s.]
5. (transitive, obsolete) To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

Etymology 2

Possibly from coop, above. Sense 2 may be from English coup (“to tilt, overturn, upset”).

Noun

coop (plural coops)

1. (regional, England, Scotland) A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
2. (regional, England, Scotland) A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; compare English cop (“top, summit (especially of a hill); head”).

Noun

coop (plural coops)

1. (Scotland) A small heap.

Etymology 4

From cooperative, by shortening.

Noun

coop (plural coops)

1. Alternative form of co-op.

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