coop

You don’t need a cardboard coop to emulate the competition elsewhere—and if ice cream isn’t enough of a draw, treat the person who goes longest without using their phone to a free drink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Their farmhouse was already old when I first saw it in 1966, complete with a chicken coop out back.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

The bird initially was enjoying time with the chickens, but by the next day he decided he had enough of his friends in the coop.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Don Knotts, “Mr. Chicken” himself, was ready to fly the coop out of L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

I crouched next to the coop and waited until I saw Doc leave with a basket on his arm, headed for the deeper part of the marsh.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

The coops even feature conversation prompts for the table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Electric fencing can be installed around chicken coops and enclosures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025

"This can lead to uneasiness within locals. We've been strengthening the coops so lynxes can't access them, and in some cases we keep monitoring the lynxes and scare them off if needed."

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

Many people from Haiti and Latin America now work in the coops and slaughterhouses of the expanding poultry industry, which extends north into Maryland and Delaware.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

He’s coming to help build more coops today.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Martin-Coppen added: "We are not talking small animals. We are talking pure muscle, pure power, untrained, cooped up in a small house."

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

A lot of workers end up cooped up in their office all day, never taking, or being able to take, time to step outdoors for fresh air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

When COVID-19 first began spreading around the world, and cities went into lockdown, many people joked that keeping couples cooped up in their homes would lead to a baby boom.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024

Airlines were helped in 2023 by strong demand for travel from people who had spent most of the pandemic cooped up at home.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

We were all mischievous because we felt cooped up and anxious.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

We also don’t mean cooping up post-exposure to a pathogen to contain the threat.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021

There is still one authorized cooping location: the precinct station house itself.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014

In New York City, large numbers of policemen seem to have the sleeping-on-duty habit, which they call "cooping."

From Time Magazine Archive

All those years of aloofness, of cooping herself up and not caring where Laila went and whom she saw and what she thought...

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

I forgot my earlier ambivalence, and I blamed Papa for everything: his young woman, his hurting Mama, his cooping me up while he went gallivanting around.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez