coop v.
1. (US) to stay, to hide.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: The ‘toughs’ are after you, and you can’t find a better place to coop than in here. | |
| How the Other Half Lives 57: The impulse that makes the Polish Jew coop himself up in his den with the thermometer at stewing heat. | |
| Forty Modern Fables 254: William remembered what Pa had said, so he cooped himself up in his Room and became a Dig. |
2. (US) to imprison.
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) : Policeman Stine in Quod [...] His wife, Mrs. Stine, got mad because he ran away with [...] a pretty and buxom grass widow, and scooted to Tower Hill, and she therefore had him cooped. |
3. (US police, esp. N.Y.) to sleep or rest while on duty – in a motel room or similar hideaway; thus cooping, sleeping or resting while on duty.
| (con. 1900s) Cop Remembers 137: I’m not telling this to prove the merits of ‘cooping,’ but it has its good as well as its bad aspects. [...] under the two platoon system it was almost impossible in a busy precinct to get a moment’s relaxation while on reserve. The Station Houses were noisy, filthy, vermin-ridden and foul and a clean bed somewhere on post was preferable to a bed behind the green lights. | |
| Commissioner 33: Random stops were made to see if a given post was covered or if the cop assigned was ‘cooped’. | |
| Patrolman 85: He told me a couple of places where I could eat [...] and a couple of places where I could ‘coop,’ or lay up. | |
| Fort Apache, The Bronx 133: This might cut into their cooping time a little. | |
| Crack War (1991) 20: A far greater transgression was cooping, falling asleep on the job. | |
| The Force [ebook] Malone scans for [...] some cops cooping in a radio car. | |
| 23rd Precinct 35: Another team let Central know that they were responding to a job, but stopped and got coffee or a sandwich first. A few cops identified the cooping locations and used them. |