copicide

词形变化

copicides 复数 copicides

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her.

    非正式

    Carrie told a police negotiator she didn't have the nerve to shoot herself. Later, she'd tell psychiatrist Gwen Levitt she was hoping to commit what the police call "copicide," in which a suicidal person gets the police to shoot him or her.

  2. 2.

    The act of killing a police officer.

    非正式

词源

From cop + -icide.

来源：wiktionary