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cop the bun

verb

cop the bun

verb
1

Dated, Rare To take the biscuit; to top everything else.

  • But that which "cops the bun" Is your sound crack about brave Jack, "The Man behind the Gun!"1894 June 2, Punch:
  • "Tell me," he demanded, "how to throw a man over my head and break his neck, for I am going to kill you, and I wish to know this thing before you die." Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IX, in The Land That Time Forgot:

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