copland
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See also: Copland
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Perhaps from obsolete cop (“summit, hilltop”) + land.
Noun[edit]
copland
- (obsolete) A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, A Chorographicall Description of All the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, page 64:
- For th'surface of a soyle, a Copland, Copland cry , Till to your shouts the Hills with Ecchoes all reply.
Etymology 2[edit]
From cop (“police officer”) + land.
Noun[edit]
copland (uncountable)
- The world of police officers and police activity.
- 2007, Randy Jurgensen, Robert Cea, Circle of Six: The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop Killer and the Cop who Risked Everything to Catch Him.:
- When that thirteen alarm sounded, everything in copland stopped, all focus was on the radio for the coordinates.
- 2010, C.B. Forrest, Slow Recoil:
- Last he'd heard, Aoki was in line for a jump to Homicide, the Holy Grail in copland.
- 2012, James Patterson, Kill Alex Cross, page 462:
- The other had a face that Rodney Glass would never forget. Not since they'd been nose to nose in that interview room in copland.