Copy, subs. (Harrow).—An asterisk: e.g. as placed on the broadsheet against the name of any boy who comes out top of his division in any subject; three COPIES secure a prize in Speech-room. See Appendix.
Corn (The), subs. (Oxford).—Cornmarket Street.
Corner, intj. (The Leys).—Look out! Clear the way! [Originally shouted as a warning by boys cycling about the buildings on approaching a corner.]
Corner-monitor, subs. (Harrow).—The monitor in turn at Bill (q.v.) to keep line and preserve order generally.
Corps-board, subs. (Harrow).—The Rifle Corps notice-board.
Cosh, subs. (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A caning. Also as verb = to cane. A rarer word is TANK (q.v.).
Cots, subs. (Christ’s Hospital).—See quot. [A corruption of “cotton.”]
1810. Charles Lamb, Recollections of Christ’s Hospital [1835], p. 24. The COTS, or superior Shoe Strings of the Monitors.
Coup, verb. 1. (Durham).—To upset: in frequent use on the river. [North dia. COUP = to empty or overset.]
2. (Stonyhurst).—At Bandy (q.v.), to lift the ball from the ground by means of the crook of the stick.