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I saw a sentence:
"Now she stood a moment, a tall, slim woman with short, tousled brown hair, with long-lidded eyes of gilded brown cop-flat in her angular face."
In which I don't know the meaning of the word "cop-flat". I have searched all the relevant materials on the internet, but I still couldn't find what this word means.
Please advise.
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I saw a sentence:
"Now she stood a moment, a tall, slim woman with short, tousled brown hair, with long-lidded eyes of gilded brown cop-flat in her angular face."
In which I don't know the meaning of the word "cop-flat". I have searched all the relevant materials on the internet, but I still couldn't find what this word means.
Please advise.
Regards,
Benny Chan
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Without more information, I don't think this question can be answered. Was the woman a police officer? That's the only way I can see this making any sense at all.
– Robusto
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That's because the writer must have just coined it but for the life of me I can't figure out what it means.
– Lambie
52 mins ago
@Lambie So you don't think my answer is correct? Why not?
– linguisticturn
49 mins ago
@linguisticturn No, I am saying given the lack of context, I could not figure it out. Is that allowed? And even if some cops have a flat look in their eyes to mean unexpressive, many cops have mean eyes, too. So....If it had been: cop-flat eyes, I might have gotten it sooner.
– Lambie
42 mins ago
@Lambie Oh, sure, sorry. I was just making sure I wasn't missing something in my answer.
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I saw a sentence:
"Now she stood a moment, a tall, slim woman with short, tousled brown hair, with long-lidded eyes of gilded brown cop-flat in her angular face."
In which I don't know the meaning of the word "cop-flat". I have searched all the relevant materials on the internet, but I still couldn't find what this word means.
Please advise.
Regards,
Benny Chan
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I saw a sentence:
"Now she stood a moment, a tall, slim woman with short, tousled brown hair, with long-lidded eyes of gilded brown cop-flat in her angular face."
In which I don't know the meaning of the word "cop-flat". I have searched all the relevant materials on the internet, but I still couldn't find what this word means.
Please advise.
Regards,
Benny Chan
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Without more information, I don't think this question can be answered. Was the woman a police officer? That's the only way I can see this making any sense at all.
– Robusto
2 hours ago
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That's because the writer must have just coined it but for the life of me I can't figure out what it means.
– Lambie
52 mins ago
@Lambie So you don't think my answer is correct? Why not?
– linguisticturn
49 mins ago
@linguisticturn No, I am saying given the lack of context, I could not figure it out. Is that allowed? And even if some cops have a flat look in their eyes to mean unexpressive, many cops have mean eyes, too. So....If it had been: cop-flat eyes, I might have gotten it sooner.
– Lambie
42 mins ago
@Lambie Oh, sure, sorry. I was just making sure I wasn't missing something in my answer.
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34 mins ago
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Without more information, I don't think this question can be answered. Was the woman a police officer? That's the only way I can see this making any sense at all.
– Robusto
2 hours ago
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That's because the writer must have just coined it but for the life of me I can't figure out what it means.
– Lambie
52 mins ago
@Lambie So you don't think my answer is correct? Why not?
– linguisticturn
49 mins ago
@linguisticturn No, I am saying given the lack of context, I could not figure it out. Is that allowed? And even if some cops have a flat look in their eyes to mean unexpressive, many cops have mean eyes, too. So....If it had been: cop-flat eyes, I might have gotten it sooner.
– Lambie
42 mins ago
@Lambie Oh, sure, sorry. I was just making sure I wasn't missing something in my answer.
– linguisticturn
34 mins ago
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Without more information, I don't think this question can be answered. Was the woman a police officer? That's the only way I can see this making any sense at all.
– Robusto
2 hours ago
Without more information, I don't think this question can be answered. Was the woman a police officer? That's the only way I can see this making any sense at all.
– Robusto
2 hours ago
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That's because the writer must have just coined it but for the life of me I can't figure out what it means.
– Lambie
52 mins ago
That's because the writer must have just coined it but for the life of me I can't figure out what it means.
– Lambie
52 mins ago
@Lambie So you don't think my answer is correct? Why not?
– linguisticturn
49 mins ago
@Lambie So you don't think my answer is correct? Why not?
– linguisticturn
49 mins ago
@linguisticturn No, I am saying given the lack of context, I could not figure it out. Is that allowed? And even if some cops have a flat look in their eyes to mean unexpressive, many cops have mean eyes, too. So....If it had been: cop-flat eyes, I might have gotten it sooner.
– Lambie
42 mins ago
@linguisticturn No, I am saying given the lack of context, I could not figure it out. Is that allowed? And even if some cops have a flat look in their eyes to mean unexpressive, many cops have mean eyes, too. So....If it had been: cop-flat eyes, I might have gotten it sooner.
– Lambie
42 mins ago
@Lambie Oh, sure, sorry. I was just making sure I wasn't missing something in my answer.
– linguisticturn
34 mins ago
@Lambie Oh, sure, sorry. I was just making sure I wasn't missing something in my answer.
– linguisticturn
34 mins ago
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As Robusto suspected (see the comments), the protagonist, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, is indeed a police officer. She is the heroine in the …in Death series of novels by the author J. D. Robb (real name Nora Roberts). In the series, Lieutenant Dallas's eyes are several times described as cop flat, meaning, unexpressive and unreadable eyes of a police officer. That is especially clear here, in a passage from another novel in the series:
Her narrow, angular face was set, the long golden brown eyes cop flat. Unreadable even to him.
(from Divided in Death)
So to say that Eve's eyes are cop flat is to say that eyes of cops are often characteristically flat, and that Eve's eyes were just like that. Here the relevant dictionary meaning of flat is 'lacking in animation, zest, or vigor : dull' (Merriam-Webster); 'lacking interest or emotion; dull and lifeless' (Oxford Dictionaries); 'Wanting in points of attraction and interest; prosaic, dull, uninteresting, lifeless, monotonous, insipid.' (Sometimes with allusion to flat drink, i.e. one that has lost its flavour or sharpness; dead, insipid, stale.) 'Said of composition, discourse, a joke, etc. Also of a person with reference to his composition, conversation, etc.' (OED).
The passage quoted by the OP is from Obsession in Death. Some other instances where Eve's eyes are described as cop flat:
Bystanders gathered just outside the sidewalk barricades. She scanned them with eyes the color of good Irish whiskey, and cop flat. And spotted the witness in the back of a blackand-white.
(from Mirror, Mirror)
She paused, her eyes going cop flat.
(from Loyalty in Death)
At least one other author has used that expression, too:
Those eyes would be her best feature, except they were cop flat.
(from Reluctant Burglar by Jill Elizabeth Nelson)
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Jill Elizabeth must have pinched it from him. He seems to have used it first.
– Lambie
35 mins ago
@Lambie Quite possible… (BTW, it's a she; J. D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts.)
– linguisticturn
31 mins ago
Oh boy, one lady copping a term from another. Ha ha.
– Lambie
26 mins ago
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I am not sure, but I think that cop flat means 'police eyed', meaning 'searching the mystery'.
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– linguisticturn
54 mins ago
For example, in my answer to this question, you may see other instances of uses of cop flat by the same author that seem more consistent with a different interpretation than the one you've given. Moreover, none of the dictionary meanings of the word flat would seem to be consistent with your interpretation. (By the way, it was not me who downvoted.)
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2 Answers
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As Robusto suspected (see the comments), the protagonist, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, is indeed a police officer. She is the heroine in the …in Death series of novels by the author J. D. Robb (real name Nora Roberts). In the series, Lieutenant Dallas's eyes are several times described as cop flat, meaning, unexpressive and unreadable eyes of a police officer. That is especially clear here, in a passage from another novel in the series:
Her narrow, angular face was set, the long golden brown eyes cop flat. Unreadable even to him.
(from Divided in Death)
So to say that Eve's eyes are cop flat is to say that eyes of cops are often characteristically flat, and that Eve's eyes were just like that. Here the relevant dictionary meaning of flat is 'lacking in animation, zest, or vigor : dull' (Merriam-Webster); 'lacking interest or emotion; dull and lifeless' (Oxford Dictionaries); 'Wanting in points of attraction and interest; prosaic, dull, uninteresting, lifeless, monotonous, insipid.' (Sometimes with allusion to flat drink, i.e. one that has lost its flavour or sharpness; dead, insipid, stale.) 'Said of composition, discourse, a joke, etc. Also of a person with reference to his composition, conversation, etc.' (OED).
The passage quoted by the OP is from Obsession in Death. Some other instances where Eve's eyes are described as cop flat:
Bystanders gathered just outside the sidewalk barricades. She scanned them with eyes the color of good Irish whiskey, and cop flat. And spotted the witness in the back of a blackand-white.
(from Mirror, Mirror)
She paused, her eyes going cop flat.
(from Loyalty in Death)
At least one other author has used that expression, too:
Those eyes would be her best feature, except they were cop flat.
(from Reluctant Burglar by Jill Elizabeth Nelson)
answered 1 hour ago
linguisticturn
4,0771131
Jill Elizabeth must have pinched it from him. He seems to have used it first.
– Lambie
35 mins ago
@Lambie Quite possible… (BTW, it's a she; J. D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts.)
– linguisticturn
31 mins ago
Oh boy, one lady copping a term from another. Ha ha.
– Lambie
26 mins ago
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up vote
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As Robusto suspected (see the comments), the protagonist, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, is indeed a police officer. She is the heroine in the …in Death series of novels by the author J. D. Robb (real name Nora Roberts). In the series, Lieutenant Dallas's eyes are several times described as cop flat, meaning, unexpressive and unreadable eyes of a police officer. That is especially clear here, in a passage from another novel in the series:
Her narrow, angular face was set, the long golden brown eyes cop flat. Unreadable even to him.
(from Divided in Death)
So to say that Eve's eyes are cop flat is to say that eyes of cops are often characteristically flat, and that Eve's eyes were just like that. Here the relevant dictionary meaning of flat is 'lacking in animation, zest, or vigor : dull' (Merriam-Webster); 'lacking interest or emotion; dull and lifeless' (Oxford Dictionaries); 'Wanting in points of attraction and interest; prosaic, dull, uninteresting, lifeless, monotonous, insipid.' (Sometimes with allusion to flat drink, i.e. one that has lost its flavour or sharpness; dead, insipid, stale.) 'Said of composition, discourse, a joke, etc. Also of a person with reference to his composition, conversation, etc.' (OED).
The passage quoted by the OP is from Obsession in Death. Some other instances where Eve's eyes are described as cop flat:
Bystanders gathered just outside the sidewalk barricades. She scanned them with eyes the color of good Irish whiskey, and cop flat. And spotted the witness in the back of a blackand-white.
(from Mirror, Mirror)
She paused, her eyes going cop flat.
(from Loyalty in Death)
At least one other author has used that expression, too:
Those eyes would be her best feature, except they were cop flat.
(from Reluctant Burglar by Jill Elizabeth Nelson)
answered 1 hour ago
linguisticturn
4,0771131
Jill Elizabeth must have pinched it from him. He seems to have used it first.
– Lambie
35 mins ago
@Lambie Quite possible… (BTW, it's a she; J. D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts.)
– linguisticturn
31 mins ago
Oh boy, one lady copping a term from another. Ha ha.
– Lambie
26 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
6
down vote
up vote
6
down vote
As Robusto suspected (see the comments), the protagonist, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, is indeed a police officer. She is the heroine in the …in Death series of novels by the author J. D. Robb (real name Nora Roberts). In the series, Lieutenant Dallas's eyes are several times described as cop flat, meaning, unexpressive and unreadable eyes of a police officer. That is especially clear here, in a passage from another novel in the series:
Her narrow, angular face was set, the long golden brown eyes cop flat. Unreadable even to him.
(from Divided in Death)
So to say that Eve's eyes are cop flat is to say that eyes of cops are often characteristically flat, and that Eve's eyes were just like that. Here the relevant dictionary meaning of flat is 'lacking in animation, zest, or vigor : dull' (Merriam-Webster); 'lacking interest or emotion; dull and lifeless' (Oxford Dictionaries); 'Wanting in points of attraction and interest; prosaic, dull, uninteresting, lifeless, monotonous, insipid.' (Sometimes with allusion to flat drink, i.e. one that has lost its flavour or sharpness; dead, insipid, stale.) 'Said of composition, discourse, a joke, etc. Also of a person with reference to his composition, conversation, etc.' (OED).
The passage quoted by the OP is from Obsession in Death. Some other instances where Eve's eyes are described as cop flat:
Bystanders gathered just outside the sidewalk barricades. She scanned them with eyes the color of good Irish whiskey, and cop flat. And spotted the witness in the back of a blackand-white.
(from Mirror, Mirror)
She paused, her eyes going cop flat.
(from Loyalty in Death)
At least one other author has used that expression, too:
Those eyes would be her best feature, except they were cop flat.
(from Reluctant Burglar by Jill Elizabeth Nelson)
answered 1 hour ago
linguisticturn
4,0771131
As Robusto suspected (see the comments), the protagonist, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, is indeed a police officer. She is the heroine in the …in Death series of novels by the author J. D. Robb (real name Nora Roberts). In the series, Lieutenant Dallas's eyes are several times described as cop flat, meaning, unexpressive and unreadable eyes of a police officer. That is especially clear here, in a passage from another novel in the series:
Her narrow, angular face was set, the long golden brown eyes cop flat. Unreadable even to him.
(from Divided in Death)
So to say that Eve's eyes are cop flat is to say that eyes of cops are often characteristically flat, and that Eve's eyes were just like that. Here the relevant dictionary meaning of flat is 'lacking in animation, zest, or vigor : dull' (Merriam-Webster); 'lacking interest or emotion; dull and lifeless' (Oxford Dictionaries); 'Wanting in points of attraction and interest; prosaic, dull, uninteresting, lifeless, monotonous, insipid.' (Sometimes with allusion to flat drink, i.e. one that has lost its flavour or sharpness; dead, insipid, stale.) 'Said of composition, discourse, a joke, etc. Also of a person with reference to his composition, conversation, etc.' (OED).
The passage quoted by the OP is from Obsession in Death. Some other instances where Eve's eyes are described as cop flat:
Bystanders gathered just outside the sidewalk barricades. She scanned them with eyes the color of good Irish whiskey, and cop flat. And spotted the witness in the back of a blackand-white.
(from Mirror, Mirror)
She paused, her eyes going cop flat.
(from Loyalty in Death)
At least one other author has used that expression, too:
Those eyes would be her best feature, except they were cop flat.
(from Reluctant Burglar by Jill Elizabeth Nelson)
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Jill Elizabeth must have pinched it from him. He seems to have used it first.
– Lambie
35 mins ago
@Lambie Quite possible… (BTW, it's a she; J. D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts.)
– linguisticturn
31 mins ago
Oh boy, one lady copping a term from another. Ha ha.
– Lambie
26 mins ago
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Jill Elizabeth must have pinched it from him. He seems to have used it first.
– Lambie
35 mins ago
@Lambie Quite possible… (BTW, it's a she; J. D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts.)
– linguisticturn
31 mins ago
Oh boy, one lady copping a term from another. Ha ha.
– Lambie
26 mins ago
Jill Elizabeth must have pinched it from him. He seems to have used it first.
– Lambie
35 mins ago
Jill Elizabeth must have pinched it from him. He seems to have used it first.
– Lambie
35 mins ago
@Lambie Quite possible… (BTW, it's a she; J. D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts.)
– linguisticturn
31 mins ago
@Lambie Quite possible… (BTW, it's a she; J. D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts.)
– linguisticturn
31 mins ago
Oh boy, one lady copping a term from another. Ha ha.
– Lambie
26 mins ago
Oh boy, one lady copping a term from another. Ha ha.
– Lambie
26 mins ago
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I am not sure, but I think that cop flat means 'police eyed', meaning 'searching the mystery'.
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For example, in my answer to this question, you may see other instances of uses of cop flat by the same author that seem more consistent with a different interpretation than the one you've given. Moreover, none of the dictionary meanings of the word flat would seem to be consistent with your interpretation. (By the way, it was not me who downvoted.)
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I am not sure, but I think that cop flat means 'police eyed', meaning 'searching the mystery'.
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For example, in my answer to this question, you may see other instances of uses of cop flat by the same author that seem more consistent with a different interpretation than the one you've given. Moreover, none of the dictionary meanings of the word flat would seem to be consistent with your interpretation. (By the way, it was not me who downvoted.)
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I am not sure, but I think that cop flat means 'police eyed', meaning 'searching the mystery'.
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I am not sure, but I think that cop flat means 'police eyed', meaning 'searching the mystery'.
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– linguisticturn
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For example, in my answer to this question, you may see other instances of uses of cop flat by the same author that seem more consistent with a different interpretation than the one you've given. Moreover, none of the dictionary meanings of the word flat would seem to be consistent with your interpretation. (By the way, it was not me who downvoted.)
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– linguisticturn
54 mins ago
For example, in my answer to this question, you may see other instances of uses of cop flat by the same author that seem more consistent with a different interpretation than the one you've given. Moreover, none of the dictionary meanings of the word flat would seem to be consistent with your interpretation. (By the way, it was not me who downvoted.)
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Hi sunita, welcome to ELU StackExchange! Thank you for answering the question. However, your contribution will be best received if you follow the following guidelines, among others: 1. Please proofread your answer for mistakes in word usage, grammar, and punctuation. 2. Please support your claims with argument and references from reputable sources. Mere opinion is usually not enough. 3. Please pay attention to any answers already given and any debate in the comments.
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54 mins ago
For example, in my answer to this question, you may see other instances of uses of cop flat by the same author that seem more consistent with a different interpretation than the one you've given. Moreover, none of the dictionary meanings of the word flat would seem to be consistent with your interpretation. (By the way, it was not me who downvoted.)
– linguisticturn
54 mins ago
For example, in my answer to this question, you may see other instances of uses of cop flat by the same author that seem more consistent with a different interpretation than the one you've given. Moreover, none of the dictionary meanings of the word flat would seem to be consistent with your interpretation. (By the way, it was not me who downvoted.)
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54 mins ago
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Without more information, I don't think this question can be answered. Was the woman a police officer? That's the only way I can see this making any sense at all.
– Robusto
2 hours ago
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That's because the writer must have just coined it but for the life of me I can't figure out what it means.
– Lambie
52 mins ago
@Lambie So you don't think my answer is correct? Why not?
– linguisticturn
49 mins ago
@linguisticturn No, I am saying given the lack of context, I could not figure it out. Is that allowed? And even if some cops have a flat look in their eyes to mean unexpressive, many cops have mean eyes, too. So....If it had been: cop-flat eyes, I might have gotten it sooner.
– Lambie
42 mins ago
@Lambie Oh, sure, sorry. I was just making sure I wasn't missing something in my answer.
– linguisticturn
34 mins ago