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Definition of coop
1 : a cage or small enclosure (as for poultry); also : a small building for housing poultry
2a : a confined areab : jail
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Examples of coop in a Sentence
like many of the city's hookers, she was back in the coop within a week of her release
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Now, Birdman’s coop at 5826 SW 107th St. will cost you $3.94 million.
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Originally located at Camp Abbey, Abbey Art Works moved to Vianney Hall on the Abbey's campus before permanently settling in the former chicken coop.
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That means raised vegetable beds, a chicken coop and fruit trees.
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Right below the Villa's observatory, there once stood a bird coop for Gianni's many carrier pigeons.
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This Southbound Gardens workshop covers coops and runs, egg production, buying adult birds, egg-eaters and broody hens.
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Her family's Blackberry Township farmhouse reflects her passion from the gravel driveway to large vegetable garden to the coop filled with chickens that provide eggs.
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To encourage air circulation and protect the birds from predators, the designers built the coop off the ground.
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Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney, a former state legislator, praised Lowry’s work, both in office and after, on creating housing for migrant farmworkers, recalling her own childhood sleeping in cars and chicken coops.
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Origin and Etymology of coop
Middle English cupe; akin to Old English cȳpe basket
coop
Definition of coop
transitive verb
1 : to confine in a restricted and often crowded area —usually used with up children cooped up in the house all day
2 : to place or keep in a coop : pen —often used with up
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Some residents cooped up inside all day Sunday emerged from their homes for the first time since the attacks.
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Think about it: Most of them spent the last four years cooped up in a dorm room with little to no kitchen access.
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Graham spent a recent Friday morning cooped up in a hotel room in Washington, graciously trudging through a marathon of media interviews.
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Cooped up: A caller reported that a hawk was caught in wiring inside a chicken coop.
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Your feet have been cooped up all winter and need some TLC. Pedicures all around.
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After months cooped up inside and navigating wet or icy roads, blue skies and warm weather are reason enough to load up your car and hit the highway.
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My 3-year-old boy and my parents cooped up at home every day, never going out.
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First Known Use of coop
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coop
playDefinition of coop for English Language Learners
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: a cage or small building in which chickens or other small animals are kept
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Definition of coop for Students
: a cage or small building for keeping poultry
Definition of coop for Students
cooped
;cooping
: to restrict to a small space The dog was cooped up in a cage.
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