kop
/kɒp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "[…] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock."
- "Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere. The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]"
- "A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek."
- "The solerets are wide-toed, […]; the wings of the elbow and knee-kops small. The inner bends of the elbow joints are furnished with a pliable protection of numerous very narrow plates."
- "1. Elbow Kop with rope-cable border. 2. Part of left Pauldron (shoulder piece) with similar border."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /kɒp/
Usage
- British usage