cop shop


Also found in: Idioms, Wikipedia.

cop shop

or

cop-shop

n
(Law) slang a police station
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
Translations

cop shop

n (Brit inf) → Bullerei f (sl), → Wache f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
The cop shop in south-west Bristol also had stables for police horses but was sold by the Avon and Somerset force in 2017.
People can also speak to a member at two drop-in events at Stourbridge Cop Shop, in the Ryemarket shopping centre, on June 13, and at Brierley Hill Sainsbury's, in Withymoor Village, on June 14.
Shaun Evans and Roger Allam, as our dynamic duo Endeavour Morse and Fred Thursday, played a blinder, as corrupt coppers Box (Simon Harrison) and Jago (Richard Riddell) finally came a cropper, and the natural order was restored at the cop shop (with Chief Supt Reginald Bright - Anton Lesser - back from his traffic department exile to lead his happy-again crew).
People feel reassured if they have a local cop shop and it makes it easier to report a crime.
Councillors gave the green light to plans to convert the former Felling cop shop into an aparthotel at Wednesday's planning committee meeting.
Guns and ammo can be handed into Paisley cop shop during a weapon amnesty - with no questions asked.
It will replace the former 38,000-square-foot cop shop that village officials said became cramped and outdated.
EMMERDALE ITV, 7pm and 8pm IT'S not looking good for Andy, who is protesting his innocence down at the local cop shop. The police aren't listening to him at all.
EMMERDALE STV, 7pm and 8pm IT'S not looking good for Andy, who is protesting his innocence down at the local cop shop. The police aren't listening to him.
Your guide to all the drama in the Square, on the cobbles and in the Dales EMMERDALE ITV, 7pm and 8pm IT'S not looking good for Andy, who is protesting his innocence down at the local cop shop. The police aren't listening to him at all.
Vaughan joked: "I thought he was going to take Aggers to the cop shop because he had the cuffs out.
NO OFFENCE (C4, 9pm) MORE dark comedy from the crumbling cop shop as a dangerous new street drug has the locals dropping like flies.