coop

Speech parts

1. coop - Noun

2. coop - Verb

3. Coop - Proper noun

Meaning

A barrel or cask for liquor.

An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

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Examples

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. Albert Ellis

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. Aleksandar Hemon

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house. Evangeline Lilly

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person. Krysten Ritter

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop. Peter Facinelli

Agatha likened him to a "fox in a hen coop" while Dracula preferred "a connoisseur in a wine cellar." Source: Internet

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