coop
To keep in a coopTo keep in a coop.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Recorded: Commander Keane, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
5 senses(transitive)To keep in a coop.
(transitive)To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
(historical, intransitive, transitive)To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
More meanings 2
(intransitive, slang)Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
(obsolete, transitive)To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
Origin
From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from MFrom Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“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 regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). 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”.
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Forms
coops, cooping, cooped, coopedTenses
coop · cooped · will coop · have coopedPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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