COPPING Synonyms

• the act of acquiring something

• the act of acquiring something

• to gain with effort

• reach a point in time, or a certain state or level

• find unexpectedly

• reach a destination, either real or abstract

• a quantity that is added

• the advantageous quality of being beneficial

• the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input

• the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating

• obtain

• win something through one's efforts

• derive a benefit from

• reach a destination, either real or abstract

• obtain advantages, such as points, etc.

• rise in rate or price

• increase or develop

• earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

• increase (one's body weight)

• come into possession of

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• be valid, applicable, or true

• get by special effort

• arrange for sexual partners for others

• free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

• free from danger or risk

• not likely to fail or give way

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• financially safe

• get by special effort

• cause to be firmly attached

• assure payment of

• make certain of

• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

• furnish with battens

• a sharp protuberance

• a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest

• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

• an unforeseen obstacle

• catch on a snag

• get by acting quickly and smartly

• hew jaggedly

• get the meaning of something

• take into custody

• anticipate with dread or anxiety

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

• the state of inactivity following an interruption

• take into custody

• hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

• attract and fix

• cause to come to an abrupt stop

• uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus

• the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20

• a large and strong and heavyset man

• Obscene word for unacceptable behavior

• a serious and ludicrous blunder

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

• the center of a target

• a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

• mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

• push or force

• try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

• speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths

• advance in price

• a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over

• (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal

• anything worn or placed about the neck

• a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part

• the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot

• a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it

• necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck

• a figurative restraint

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

• take into custody

• seize by the neck or collar

• furnish with a collar

• a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor

• a copper penny

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper

• any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings

• coat with a layer of copper

• filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• a hazy or indistinct representation

• the first beard of an adolescent boy

• take by theft

• seize upon or latch onto something

• a catch for locking a door

• a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

• anything that serves as an enticement

• a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

• a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

• a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer

• a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

• a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

• fasten with a hook

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price

• make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

• hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left

• take by theft

• make off with belongings of others

• hit with a hook

• catch with a hook

• to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

• secure with the foot

• entice and trap

• approach with an offer of sexual favors

• tag the base runner to get him out

• take into custody

• seize suddenly

• horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits

• a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

• a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard

• attach something somewhere by means of nails

• take into custody

• hit with great force

• succeed in obtaining a position

• succeed at easily

• locate exactly

• complete a pass

• domestic swine

• a coarse obnoxious person

• a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

• a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

• live like a pig, in squalor

• eat greedily

• give birth to (piglets)

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• take by theft

• give away information about somebody