how to pronounce cop

/ˈkɑːp/

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cop is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of cop in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… his father was a cop and some say an …”

meaning of cop

A cop is a police officer.

cop frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word cop occurs in english on average 13.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cop can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cop can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;

3) transport and travel;