Cop Explained

Cop or Cops commonly refers to:

• Police officer

Cop and other variants may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

Film

• Cop (film), a 1988 American thriller
• Cops (film), an American silent comedy short starring Buster Keaton
• The Cop (1928 film), an American silent drama
• The Cop (1970 film), an Italian crime film
• Un flic, alternatively entitled The Cop, a 1972 French crime film

Music

• COP International, a record label
• The Cops (Australian band), an Australian rock band
• Cop (album), by Swans
• "Cop", a song by Alkaline Trio on the album Goddamnit
• Cops (EP), a song by the Australian band The Cops
• "The Cop", a song by The Knife on the album Deep Cuts

Television

• Cop (TV series), a 2019 Russian crime comedy-drama TV series
• Cops (TV program), an American docuseries television program
• COPS (animated TV series), a 1988–1989 American animated series
• The Cops (British TV series), a 1998–2001 British crime drama
• The Cops (Israeli TV series), a 2021 crime drama

Other uses in art and entertainment

• C.O.P.S 'N' Crooks, a line of action figures
• C.O.P. The Recruit, a 2009 video game

Brands and enterprises

• COP International, a record label
• Columbus Outdoor Pursuits, parent organization of the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure
• ConocoPhillips, an energy company, NYSE symbol COP
• COP Inc., manufacturer of the COP .357 Derringer pistol
• Copper State Air Service, an airline, ICAO designator COP

Computing

• COP, an interrupt in 65xx processors
• COPS (software), a UNIX security tool
• C Object Processor, a superset of the C programming language
• Common Open Policy Service, a network management protocol
• Common operational picture, a type of military technology
• Computer Operating Properly, a type of embedded timer
• COP8 and COP400, Control-Orientated Processor System. Simple microcontroller chips. Now superseded by PICs.

Healthcare

• Community ophthalmic physician, a type of medical ophthalmologist in the Republic of Ireland
• Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, an illness
• Cyclophosphamide, Oncovin, and Prednisone/Prednisolone, a variant of the chemotherapy regimen CHOP

Organizations and conferences

• Cathedral of Praise, a Pentecostal church in Ermita, Manila, Philippines
• College of Paramedics, a professional representative body in the UK
• Comité Olímpico de Portugal, the Olympic Committee of Portugal
• Comité politique et de sécurité, French name for the Political and Security Committee of the European Union
• Communities Organized for Public Service, a Texas community organization
• Community Oriented Policing Services, an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice
• Conference of the parties, the supreme governing body of an international convention
  • United Nations Climate Change Conference, yearly conferences of the COP (commonly referred to as COP followed by the edition number)
• Congress of the People (Trinidad and Tobago), a political party

Places

• Cop, Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Haiti, a town in the Aquin Arrondissement of Haiti
• Centralny Okreg Przemyslowy, Polish industrial region
• Canada Olympic Park, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Science

• Center of pressure (terrestrial locomotion), characteristic point in locomotion dynamics
• Coat protein; see COPI
• Coefficient of performance, a concept in thermodynamics
• Community of practice, a group of people who share a craft or a profession
• Opposite category (C^op), a concept in category theory

Other uses

• Čop (surname)
• Cop, the ball which builds up on the spindle in spinning
• Code of Points, another name for the ISU Judging System used to score ice skating
• Community-oriented policing, a policing strategy
• Colombian peso, a currency, by ISO 4217 code
• Combat outpost (military)
• Coptic language, ISO 639-2 code cop
• Cost of products sold, concept in economics
• Close of play, alternative term for the end of day
• Short for coprophagia

See also

• • Copper (disambiguation)
• Copse, a small area of woodland