copless

English

Etymology

From cop +‎ -less.

Adjective

copless (not comparable)

1. Lacking cops; void of police.
   • 1991, Brian K. Roberts, "Brush with Greatness", The Simpsons, seen written on a sign:

     This park is not copless, so please don't go topless.

   • 2008, Todd Komarnicki, War:

     It was about two and a half miles from our house to the center of our little village, and by the time I'd finished sluicing across lawns and hydroplaning over the copless streets, I was a single, giant molecule of water as I stepped into the ice cream parlor with the famous name.

   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge:

     Back in Manhattan meatspace, what she ends up doing is somehow passing through the shadowy copless cross streets to Tenth Avenue and finding headed uptown a curb-to-curb abundance of lighted alphanumerics on cheerful yellow rooftops […].