cop it
verb- "Oh, you'll cop it," said the recruit. "The sergeant has been here twice looking for you."1915, Lyman Abbott, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:
- He shook his black, dishevelled hair ominously and said: "You'll cop it for this!"1966, Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks, My Childhood:
1 more example
- I suppose he must have been all right, because you don't half cop it for killing a soldier.1970, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Ninepenny Flute:
- Synonyms
- catch it, catch hell, get it