Meaning

2 senses

  1. (informal)A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her.

  2. (informal)The act of killing a police officer.

Origin

From cop + -icide.

From cop + -icide.

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Forms

plural: copicides
Singularcopicide
Pluralcopicides

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
suicide by provoking a police officer to shoot:death by copsuicide by cop

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
copA1copiercopilotcoping
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