coop
IPA: kˈup
noun
- A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
- A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
- (figuratively, slang) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
- (obsolete) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
- (regional, England, Scotland) A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
- (regional, England, Scotland) A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
- (Scotland) A small heap.
- A surname.
- Diminutive of Cooper
- A male given name
- Alternative form of co-op. [A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.]
verb
- (transitive) To keep in a coop.
- (transitive) To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
- (transitive, intransitive, politics, historical) To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
- (intransitive, law enforcement, slang) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
co-op
IPA: kˈoʊɑp
noun
- A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
- Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
- Any shop owned by a cooperative.
- (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.
- (Britain, informal) Any of very many shops belonging to the Co-operative Group and its predecessors
verb
- Synonym of cooperate
Examples of "coop" in Sentences
- Let me see the new coop.
- How many coops do you own
- The coop is built with woods.
- She has seven chickens in the coop.
- It is letting the fox guard the chicken coop.
- He went to the coop to check on his chickens.
- I like being restricted to the cage of fact, the coop of reality.
- The original gatehouse, barn and chicken coop complete the estate.
- August 2, 2004 | 6: 15 pm coop is cute, hot, funny, nice kaitlin agosh
- This ends with him and his sisters walking along the roof of the chicken coop.
- But use co-op as a short form for cooperative to distinguish it from the word coop.
- [By the way, "coop" is a reference to the Oklahoma farming co-operative which self-markets locally grown produce.]
- When the boy had lifted up our mansion (which he called a coop), mother-hen started at once on a journey round the world.
- Down the garden, the hens pecked noisily around the blue chicken coop while the sun struggled to come out on this damp Summer morning.
- First, if you don’t have much room for a larger chicken house, the smaller movable chicken coop is going to be absolutely perfect to meet your needs.
- I would say they are very valid from a quality/price point of view (you see them in coop supermarkets priced at 5-6 euros). p.s. I love the Sopranos as much as the next guy ….
- They were false and treacherous (v. 27): As a cage, or coop, is full of birds, and of food for them to fatten them for the table, so are their houses full of deceit, of wealth obtained by fraudulent practices or of arts and methods of defrauding.
- Now let us assume that when all our chickens have come home to roost the strain on our economic coop is ten per cent of what I believe it will be; nay, as little as ten per cent of what my friends on the Left have an instinctive presentiment that it may be.
Examples of "co-op" in Sentences
- Described as a "co-op fantasy MMO shooter," it's a free-to-play browser game with an emphasis on loot.
- Ms. Wilder called the co-op, located on West 81st Street at Columbus Avenue, 'the ultimate pied-à-terre.'
- Cooperative education, which is also known as co-op education and co-op jobs, is becoming increasingly popular.
- Exhibitors also pay a portion of the cost of the display ads taken out by the studios in what is known as co-op advertising.
- Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal Ms. Stanley said the co-op, which is located in the Edgewater Park complex, pictured here, was used for her father's ventilation, air conditioning and chimney-cleaning business.