kop, noun
/kɔp/
- Forms:
- Also kope, koup.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch, head; peak, hill.
1. A prominent hill or peak; a hill crest. See also koppie.
a. Used as an element in place names.
1835 A. Steedman Wanderings I. 115We uitspanned at a place called Rhenoster Kope, from the supposed resemblance which the mountain bears to the head of a rhinoceros.
1989 P.E. Raper Dict. of Sn Afr. Place Names 339Meintjeskop,..Hill in Pretoria, on which the Union Buildings are situated.
b. Used as a common noun.
a1858 J. Goldswain Chron. (1946) I. 91We saw several Horses greasen on the Kop and thought that we could get them without danger.
1990 A. Goldman in Motorist 4th Quarter 7The tribe [of baboons]..had time to scramble to the top of the kop from where they could roll rocks down the hill to frighten off attackers.
‖2. colloquial. Head; intelligence.
1881 E. London Dispatch & Frontier Advertiser 19 Jan. 3Why! what is this, a night cap, a scotch cap, or what?..Here is some writing: ‘for anyone suffering from rheumatics in the kop’.
1991 G. De Beer Informant, Port Nolloth, Northern CapeOne day you’ll leave your kop behind too...That guy really has kop (intelligence).
3. slang. A head-butt.
1972 Sunday Tribune 16 July 3Squawk just swore at him. ‘So the CID man gave him three quick kops (butted him in the face)..’
A prominent hill or peak; a hill crest.
Used as an element in place names.
Used as a common noun.
Head; intelligence.
A head-butt.
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