English citations of coop
- A basket, pen or enclosure for birds.
- 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.
- (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.
- Holland:
- Shaken tubs […] be new cooped.
