Isaac Rivera
New Word for a New World
Thinking into what word I can come up with and enjoy to write about was so difficult. I wanted it to be fun and mean something cool. So during the process I couldn’t think of any cool words (except bad ones I didn’t want to mention). So looking deeper into what I like, which is to become a cop and lights just went off in my head. Where did cop come from and what could it mean?
My first thoughts were to define it before I looked it up, I wanted to see how close or far I get from the meaning. So cop could mean authority, or maybe it came from the old westerns, back when cowboys and Indians roamed the earth. I believe that might be the best answer that back in the westerns the sheriff got his badge from a piece of copper from the copper mines, and then forged it to a star.
After looking up the meaning, I found the word to be silly and not so useful. I felt cop had such a better meaning, but I found out it is just a slang word that came during the early eighteenth century. Its slang meaning meant, “to get ahold of, catch, capture.” So by the mid 19th century the word became more familiarized and was used more and got the
-er added to want the word copper. So the meaning stood for cops and policeman became cops or copper which means a person cops, or catches and arrests criminals.
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