coop

coop
[[t]ku͟ːp[/t]]
coops
1) N-COUNT A coop is a cage where you keep small animals or birds such as chickens and rabbits.
2) PHRASE: V inflects If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.

...a family whose children have grown up and flown the coop...

She graduates to senior stylist and then flies the coop to set up in a salon of her own.


English dictionary. 2008.

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  • Coop — (k[=oo]p), n. [Cf. AS. cypa a measure, D. kuip tub, Icel. kupa bowl, G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See {Cup}, and cf. {Keeve}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. An …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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