cophouse
nounEtymology From cop + house.
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Slang A police station.
- Public security is one of the services still under military control, as I discovered in Beijing when I and another colleague inadvertently ended up in the local cophouse.1999, John Gittings, China through the sliding door: reporting three decades of change:
- I had a little over two hours before I turned back into a church mouse and had to report to the head cat at the cophouse.2007, Loren D. Estleman, American Detective, page 86:
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- I took breakfast in a little muncheonette three doors down from the cophouse.2009, Cornelius Kane, The Unscratchables, page 15: