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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
coop .
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[8] The exact spelling of Bunyan is here followed; but whether he meant 'coped,' 'covered,' or 'cooped' -- inclosed, or shut in -- must be left to the reader's judgment.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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We'd been kind of cooped up in these big, smoggy cities for a while.
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But I think that he felt, as he says at one point in there, kind of cooped up, like he was in a cage in the White House and all the more so after the assassination attempt.
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Did you feel like you were kind of cooped up when you first started working in the mill.
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It is impossible to be "cooped" at your desk, if you have to cross a garden or
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If you leave a car "cooped" up in the garage for years, chances are it's not going to run well when you let it out.
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If you leave a car "cooped" up in the garage for years, chances are it's not going to run well when you let it out.
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"I was in the hotel room for most of the day, so I was kind of cooped up," White said.
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"I was in the hotel room for most of the day, so I was kind of cooped up," White said.
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The base commander told me once, How would you like to be mayor of a town of twenty thousand people, most of them nineteen-year-old kids cooped up under pressure and a long way from home?
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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