Synonyms of the word

cop

• n. (obsolete) A spider.
• v. (transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to…
• v. (transitive) to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment…
• v. (transitive, trainspotting, slang) to see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
• v. (transitive) to steal.
• v. (transitive) to adopt.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "to", slang) to admit, especially to a crime.
• n. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.
• n. (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
• n. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
• n. (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
• n. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
• n. (architecture, military) A merlon.

apprehend

• v. (transitive, archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
• v. (transitive) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant…
• v. (transitive) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
• v. (intransitive) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
• v. (intransitive) To be apprehensive; to fear.

arrest

• n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• n. A device to physically arrest motion.
• n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
• v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
• v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

bull

• n. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
• n. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
• n. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants and seals.
• n. A large, strong man.
• n. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
• n. (slang) A policeman.
• n. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
• n. (Britain) Clipping of bullseye.
• n. (Philadelphia, slang) A man.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
• adj. Large and strong, like a bull.
• adj. (of large mammals) adult male.
• adj. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
• adj. stupid.
• v. (intransitive) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
• v. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
• v. (intransitive) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
• v. (Britain, military) To polish boots to a high shine.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
• n. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
• n. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
• v. (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull.
• n. A lie.
• n. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
• v. to mock, cheat.
• n. (16th century, obsolete) a bubble.

clutch

• v. To seize, as though with claws.
• v. To grip or grasp tightly.
• n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
• n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
• n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
• n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
• n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
• n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
• n. (US) An important or critical situation.
• adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
• n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
• n. A group or bunch (of people or things).

collar

• n. Anything that encircles the neck.
• n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
• n. (slang) An arrest.
• v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
• v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
• v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
• v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
• v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
• v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

copper

• n. (uncountable) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity,…
• n. (countable) Something made of copper.
• n. The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
• n. (countable) A copper coin.
• n. (Britain, archaic) A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia…
• adj. Made of copper.
• adj. Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
• v. To sheathe or coat with copper.
• n. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer.

fuzz

• n. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
• n. Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
• n. (computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
• n. A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
• n. A state of befuddlement.
• v. (transitive) To make fuzzy.
• v. (intransitive) To become fuzzy.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make drunk.
• v. (computing) To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
• n. (slang, with "the") The police.

glom

• v. (transitive, informal) To steal, to grab.
• v. (intransitive) To stare.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To attach.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

nab

• v. (transitive) To seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive.
• v. (transitive) To grab or snatch something.
• n. The summit of an eminence.
• n. The cock of a gunlock.
• n. (locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.

nail

• n. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
• n. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
• n. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
• n. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven…
• n. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The…
• n. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5…
• v. (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
• v. (intransitive) To drive a nail.
• v. (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
• v. (slang) To catch.
• v. (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
• v. (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
• v. (transitive, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. To spike, as a cannon.

officer

• n. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or…
• n. One who holds a public office.
• n. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
• n. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
• v. (transitive) To supply with officers.
• v. (transitive) To command like an officer.

pig

• n. Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for…
• n. (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
• n. (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
• n. Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
• n. A nasty or disgusting person, usually male.
• n. A dirty or slovenly person.
• n. (now chiefly US, Britain, Australia, derogatory, slang) A police officer.
• n. (informal) A difficult problem.
• n. (countable and uncountable) A block of cast metal.
• n. The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
• n. (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating…
• n. (pejorative) A person who is obese to the extent of resembling a pig (the animal).
• n. (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
• n. (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating…
• v. (of swine) to give birth.
• v. (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
• v. (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
• v. (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
• n. (Scotland) earthenware, or an earthenware shard.
• n. An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer.

policeman

• n. A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
• n. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric…

prehend

• v. (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

snitch

• v. (transitive) To steal, quickly and quietly.
• v. (transitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
• v. (slang, transitive) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
• n. A thief.
• n. An informer, usually one who betrays his group.
• n. (Britain) A nose.
• n. A tiny morsel.

steal

• v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
• v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
• v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
• v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
• v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
• v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
• n. The act of stealing.
• n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
• n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
• n. (baseball) A stolen base.
• n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

thieve

• v. (intransitive) To commit theft.