How do you use the word "coop" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "coop" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "coop": It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son. Yesterday I went to Denizli and I saw a rooster near the coop.

Coop Meaning

/kuːp/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

nounA wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.

Sentence Examples

It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son.

Yesterday I went to Denizli and I saw a rooster near the coop.

Beware! The fox is roaming around the chicken coop.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

cage

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Every evening the farmer locks the chickens inside the wooden ____ for safety.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken ____ for his son.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Poorly ventilated coops are likely to result in losses by suffocation, particularly during hot weather, when the coops are overcrowded. The bottom of the coop should be built solid of one-half-inch boards to prevent the birds' toes from sticking through and being injured." — 1927 December, Rob R. Slocum, “Marketing Poultry”, in Farmers' Bulletin (Bulletin (United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Publications)), number 1377, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1928, →OCLC, page 11:

""Well," said Calvin, "we could go over to the chicken coop this afternoon when all the hens are inside laying eggs. We might find some clues."" — 2011, Connie M. Ramsey, Calvin Coyote and the Chicken Coop Caper, Mustang, Okla.: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN:

"With this collection of 14 coop designs, our hope is to expand the definition of what a chicken coop is or could be. Surely, building more time-tested coop structures would be sufficient, and we love the traditional coops out there. […] How can chicken coops better serve users in the contemporary world? How can they look and function differently? What kinds of materials can be used? Can chicken coops be treated like a piece of outdoor furniture? Can chicken coops serve multiple purposes in a well-functioning small urban farm?" — 2012, Kevin McElroy, Matthew Wolpe, “Preface”, in Reinventing the Chicken Coop: 14 Original Designs with Step-by-Step Building Instructions, North Adams, Mass.: Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:

"Falling in with a shoal of porpoises the vessel should be prepared with coops manufactured of copper wire, or other substance of great elasticity and strength; these coops to be lowered by blocks and pulleys in every direction round the vessel, and to be in the same manner hoisted when entered by the fish." — 1834 October, H. F., “Suggestions Relative to the Oil Fisheries”, in The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, number III, London: Published for Henry Colburn by Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 241:

"At a Court held 10th December, 1868, the Special Commissioners for English Fisheries made an order declaring to be legal, subject to certain alterations, a coop or fishing apparatus of the respondent, situated at Salmon Hall, near Workington, in the river Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, which the respondent claimed to use as legal. […] The said coop is a fishing-box or apparatus inserted in or forming part of the structure of a dam built across the river Derwent, […]" — 1870 July 11, Chief Justice Bovill, Court of Common Pleas, “Lord Leconfield and others, appellants, v. Earl of Lonsdale, respondent”, in Montagu Chambers, Francis Towers Streeten, Frederick Hoare Colt, editors, The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1870 (Common Law, New Series), volume XXXIX, London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square. Published by Edward Bret Ince, 5, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, →OCLC, page 305:

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