cop to
phrasal verb
copped to; copping to; cops to
US slang
: to admit to doing (something)
He agreed to cop to a misdemeanor.
Examples of cop to in a Sentence
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There’s no evidence that Silly String ever caused any LAPD motorcycle cops to wreck their hogs while weaving between drunken vampires and mermaids on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Sabrina Carpenter copped to possibly having a role in last week’s first-ever indictment of a sitting New York mayor.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
Combs only copped to any malfeasance this spring when brutal footage from eight years ago surfaced of him blatantly attacking Ventura in a City of Angels hotel corridor.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
In the catalogue, Yvon Chouinard took his industry to task for the environmental damage of rock climbing and copped to his own culpability, as a purveyor of steel pitons.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Sabrina Carpenter copped to possibly having a role in last week’s first-ever indictment of a sitting New York mayor.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
Combs only copped to any malfeasance this spring when brutal footage from eight years ago surfaced of him blatantly attacking Ventura in a City of Angels hotel corridor.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
In the catalogue, Yvon Chouinard took his industry to task for the environmental damage of rock climbing and copped to his own culpability, as a purveyor of steel pitons.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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“Cop to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cop%20to. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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