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Grammar : Verb
Spell : koop, koo p
Phonetic Transcription : kup, kʊp



Definition of coop up

Origin :
  • "small cage for poultry," mid-14c., from Old English cype, cypa "basket, cask," akin to Middle Dutch kupe, Swedish kupa, and all probably from Latin cupa "tub, cask," from PIE *keup- "hollow mound" (see cup (n.)).
  • As in incarcerate : verb put in jail, confinement
  • As in bottle up : verb hold in check
  • As in cage : verb hold in enclosure
  • As in corral : verb enclose
  • As in cramp : verb hinder, restrain
  • As in impound : verb confine
Example sentences :
  • By occupying all the posts of Egypt, we can coop up the French and force them to capitulate.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • You're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off.
  • Extract from : « Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford » by George Randolph Chester
  • That ten thousand peasants can coop up an equal number of the Kings trained troops is too monstrous for any sane mind to believe.
  • Extract from : « The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill » by John T. McIntyre
  • Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men, and you undo them.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 » by Various

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