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# coop

«coop» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cage or small house where chickens or other birds are kept** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a coop, coops); verb (coop up, coops, cooped, cooping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A coop is a cage or small house where chickens or other birds are kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#m1)

2) To be cooped up means to be kept inside a small space for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#m2)

3) A co-op (also written coop) is a shop or business owned and run by its members. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

On farms and in back gardens, hens sleep in a chicken coop and lay eggs there; it must be shut at night against foxes. In everyday life children feel cooped up inside on a rainy day. Phrases: chicken coop, hen coop, cooped up, fly the coop (escape, leave).

### examples

- We let the hens out of the coop every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#x1)
- Dad built a coop for our chickens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#x2)
- Close the coop at night so the fox can't get in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#x3)
- We have been cooped up all day because of the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#x4)
- The parrot flew the coop when the door was left open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#x5)
- The eggs were still warm in the coop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/#x6)

### note

Countable: a coop, coops. Pronounced KOOP, like «hoop». «Co-op» (KOH-op), short for cooperative, is a different word and is often written with a hyphen. «Fly the coop» = escape or leave home.

### In the corpora

- [Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protects the hens better than anger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «coop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.