cop to

phrasal verb

copped to; copping to; cops to

US slang

: to admit to doing (something)

He agreed to cop to a misdemeanor.

Examples of cop to in a Sentence

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The monitor ultimately led cops to Bodden in connection with Forrest’s death. —

Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025 Robert Tafoya have both copped to their role in the pay-to-play scheme and agreed to cooperate in ongoing public corruption investigations. —

Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024 All three released individual statements, with some alluding to potentially troubling issues on top of the band’s already prominent notoriety: Frontman Tim Lambesis infamously spent nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to soliciting an undercover cop to murder his then-wife. —

Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024 This true-crime series unpacks the 1990 robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by two men who posed as cops to con their way into stealing a fortune. —

Sara Netzley, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for cop to