noun. A small enclosure or cage, as for poultry or small animals.

noun. A cramped or uncomfortably confined space.

noun. A jail or prison.

transitive verb. To confine or keep (poultry, for example) in a coop.

transitive verb. To confine in a small or cramped space. Often used with up:

idiom. (fly/blow) To make a getaway; escape.

noun. A box, usually with grating or bars on one side or more, in which poultry are confined for fattening, transportation, exhibition, etc., or in which a hen with young chicks is shut for shelter and to keep her from straying.

noun. A pen; an inclosed place for small animals, poultry, etc.

noun. Any narrow, confining place of abode, as a house or room.

noun. A cask; a barrel, keg, tub, pail, or other vessel formed of staves and hoops, for containing liquids.

noun. A Dutch corn-measure equal to about one tenth of a Winchester peck.

noun. A tumbrel or close cart.

To put into a coop; confine in a coop; cage; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass: often followed by up: as, the poor of the city are cooped up in crowded tenements.

To make or repair (a vessel formed of staves and hoops); hoop (a vessel).

Synonyms To inclose, imprison, hem in, cage.

transitive verb. To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

transitive verb. To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

noun. A barrel or cask for liquor.

noun. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

noun. A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

noun. Alternative spelling of co-op.

noun. A pen or enclosure for birds.

noun. jail

verb. To keep in a coop.

verb. To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.

verb. To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

noun. an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

noun. a farm building for housing poultry

"But use co-op as a short form for cooperative to distinguish it from the word coop."

coop up  

farm building  

Guadeloupe  Hoop  Loop  Shoop  coupe  

barnyard  corral  farmyard  loft  roost  

arena  bar  beleaguer  beset  besiege  

cooped  cooping  coops