Wiktionary
alt. (context Ireland informal idiomatic English) common sense. n. (context Ireland informal idiomatic English) common sense. vb. 1 (context Ireland informal idiomatic English) To behave, to grow up. 2 (context UK dialect English) To understand.
Usage examples of "cop on".
Claire caught up just as the cold air got him back to normal: Krugman the Commie on a hot date, Upshaw the Homicide cop on overtime.
This was a night when the schedule was so arranged that 1 was all alone for six hours-the only cop on the grounds.
Chris Dowling, the newest cop on the town police force, came bounding across the boardwalk extension.
Danny saw Niles smell cop on him and head over, looking more and more curious and pissed: strange meat on his turf, too young to be working the Homicide Bureau downtown.
Krugman the Commie on a hot date, Upshaw the Homicide cop on overtime.
Now it was time to put the cop on hold, at least for an hour or two.
She knew a harder question, though: Why had the cop on the passenger side of the black-and-white been sleeping in such an uncomfortable position, with his chin way down on his chest and his cap pulled so low over his eyes that he looked like a thug in a gangster movie from the thirties?