coop

verb
🔊/kuːp/
🔊/kuːp/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they coop
🔊/kuːp/
🔊/kuːp/
he / she / it coops
🔊/kuːps/
🔊/kuːps/
past simple cooped
🔊/kuːpt/
🔊/kuːpt/
past participle cooped
🔊/kuːpt/
🔊/kuːpt/
-ing form cooping
🔊/ˈkuːpɪŋ/
🔊/ˈkuːpɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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coop

noun
🔊/kuːp/
🔊/kuːp/
Idioms
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  1. a cage for chickens, etc.(关鸡等的)笼子Topics Birdsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCoop is used after these nouns:
    • chicken
    • hen
    • pigeon
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    Word OriginMiddle English cowpe; related to Dutch kuip ‘vat’ and German Kufe ‘cask’, based on Latin cupa. Compare with cooper.
Idioms
fly the coop
  1. (informal, especially North American English) to escape from a place逃走