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Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Mutt and Jeff. Mutt and Jeff was a long-popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about two mismatched tinhorns.. It is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip.
cop is a shortening of the word coppers.. In the UK, where community policing originated, police are more often referred to as coppers not cops. It is almost certain the terms is in response to the use of copper items in their dress.