copped

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of cop.

   The proposal copped a fair amount of criticism from the board.

   The defendant copped a plea to avoid a longer sentence.

   Note

   One spelling does both jobs: she copped the blame and she has copped the blame use the same form, with the p doubled after the short vowel of cop. Most uses are informal, from getting hold of something to bearing blame or punishment. In slang it can also mean admitted wrongdoing, and in railway slang a locomotive is copped when first seen and recorded. Keep it apart from the adjective meaning "pointed".

2. 2
   adjective

   Narrowing upward to a point or crest, like a cone.

   The old fortress was topped with a copped tower visible for miles.

   She sketched the copped peaks of the distant range at dusk.

   Similarpointed, peaked, conical, crested

   Oppositeflat, rounded

   Note

   A shape word with a surgeon's pedigree: Richard Wiseman's Severall Chirurgicall Treatises (1676) describes something that "was broad in its basis, and rose copped like a Sugarloaf." The comparison captures the shape exactly: wide at the base and narrowing to a peak. The adjective is gradable, so one summit can be more copped than another, and the most copped of a range is the sharpest.

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