cophouse

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cophouse

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From cop + house.

noun cophouses

slang A police station. Public security is one of the services still under military control, as I discovered in Beijing when I and another colleague inadvertently ended up in the local cophouse.

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"cophouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cophouse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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cophouse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cophouse

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"cophouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cophouse.

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@misc{cophouse_2026,
  title = {cophouse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cophouse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}