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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.
This form copper thus was the noun for one who cops.. Some sources document the use of the verb cop used with the meaning arrest in 1844, and suggests this was the source of the specific use of cop to refer to a law officer. The term copper was originally used in England as a slang word for a police officer. This term was used, however, as a term of abuse by criminals, especially petty street criminals. It was considered highly derogatory by the police themselves.