Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small enclosure or cage, as for poultry or small animals.
- noun A cramped or uncomfortably confined space.
- noun Slang A jail or prison.
- transitive verb To confine or keep (poultry, for example) in a coop.
- transitive verb To confine in a small or cramped space. Often used with up:
- idiom (fly/blow) To make a getaway; escape.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box, usually with grating or bars on one side or more, in which poultry are confined for fattening, transportation, exhibition, etc., or in which a hen with young chicks is shut for shelter and to keep her from straying.
- noun A pen; an inclosed place for small animals, poultry, etc.
- noun Any narrow, confining place of abode, as a house or room.
- noun A cask; a barrel, keg, tub, pail, or other vessel formed of staves and hoops, for containing liquids.
- noun A Dutch corn-measure equal to about one tenth of a Winchester peck.
- noun A tumbrel or close cart.
- To put into a coop; confine in a coop; cage; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass: often followed by up: as, the poor of the city are cooped up in crowded tenements.
- To make or repair (a vessel formed of staves and hoops); hoop (a vessel).
- Synonyms To inclose, imprison, hem in, cage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A barrel or cask for liquor.
- noun An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
- noun Scotch A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
- transitive verb To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by
up , sometimes byin . - transitive verb obsolete To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
co-op . - noun A
pen orenclosure forbirds . - noun slang
jail - verb To keep in a coop.
- verb transitive To
shut up orconfine in a narrow space; tocramp . - verb obsolete, transitive To work upon in the manner of a
cooper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- noun a farm building for housing poultry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But use co-op as a short form for cooperative to distinguish it from the word coop.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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But use co-op as a short form for cooperative to distinguish it from the word coop.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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When the boy had lifted up our mansion (which he called a coop), mother-hen started at once on a journey round the world.
The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People Various
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[By the way, "coop" is a reference to the Oklahoma farming co-operative which self-markets locally grown produce.]
11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003
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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 ….
Mafia-free wine, White House, Justice Roberts, wine service – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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August 2, 2004 | 6: 15 pm coop is cute, hot, funny, nice kaitlin agosh
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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.
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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.
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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.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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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.
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