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Likely this slang word for a police officer can be traced back to the Old French word caper, which meant to take or to seize. It entered English as cap before 1589. The word is used in "Plaine Perceuall the Peace-maker of England" by Richard Harvey.
Cap him sirra, if he pay it not.
The word appears before there was standardized spelling so, at the beginning of the 18th century, the pronunciation and spelling had changed to cop.
The shift to noun and the meaning of policeman (copper, one who cops; i.e., one who takes or seizes) occurred about a century and a half later.
False etymologies include the acronym, Constable On Patrol, but the word appeared prior to any other known acronym.
Another false etymology asserts that the word refers to the copper buttons police uniforms or to the copper badges police wore.
The term "cop" does actually derive from the copper badge that the keystone cops had in Europe.
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