- a cage for chickens, etc.Topics Birdsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryCoop is used after these nouns:
- chicken
- hen
- pigeon
- …
Word OriginMiddle English cowpe; related to Dutch kuip ‘vat’ and German Kufe ‘cask’, based on Latin cupa. Compare with cooper.
Idioms
See coop in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfly the coop
- (informal, especially North American English) to escape from a place
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