coop

[US]/kuːp/
[UK]/kʊp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. confine in a cage; restrict; imprison
vi. doze off while on duty in a police car
n. a cage for chickens; a small house; a fish trap.

Phrases & Collocations

chicken coop

coop up

coop building

Example Sentences

Cooper was spoiling for a fight.

Cooper had put much of the furniture into storage.

Litter in the hen coop beds down if it is not raked.

was cooped up in a studio apartment;

He was cooped up in a tiny room.

Cooper had the unenviable job of announcing the redundancies.

whitewashed chicken coops which posed as villas.

If the chickens come out of their coops early,it will rain during the day.

being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety.

Cooper M R.The progressive development of a failure surface in overconsolidated clay at Selborne,UK.

We’ve been cooped up (indoors) for hours because of the rain.

He was never happy living at home with his parents, so as soon as possible he flew the coop and got his own place.

COOPER BANK will not be held liable for errors that are not reported to COOER BANK's Compliance Department after forty-eight (48) hours of the time of the event complained of.

A poet calling himself Satyrical Dick wrote how a “jolly wine-cooper” could combine a “pint of old port” with some rough Spanish wine and thus “could counterfeit claret the best of the sort”.

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