kop
noun
[ kɒp ]
• a high bank of terracing at certain soccer grounds, notably at Liverpool Football Club.
• (especially in place names) a hill or peak.
Origin:
kop (sense 2) from Afrikaans, from Dutch, literally ‘head’ (compare with cop2). kop (sense 1) comes from the name of Spioen Kop, site of a Boer War battle in which troops from Lancashire led the assault (Liverpool then being part of Lancashire).
