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cop it (third-person singular simple present cops it, present participle copping it, simple past and past participle copped it)

1. (British, slang) To get into trouble; to be punished.
   • 1915, Lyman Abbott, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:

     "Oh, you'll cop it," said the recruit. "The sergeant has been here twice looking for you."

   • 1966, Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks, My Childhood:

     He shook his black, dishevelled hair ominously and said: "You'll cop it for this!"

   • 1970, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Ninepenny Flute:

     I suppose he must have been all right, because you don't half cop it for killing a soldier.

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