Definition of "coppering" []

• Present participle of copper. (verb)
• The act of covering with copper. (noun)
• An envelope or covering of copper. (noun)

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• "Weak police leaders who have never done a decent days coppering in their lives are at the wheel of the policing equivalent of The Titanic-If you think Ian Blair and co were bad just you wait for the next lot to come along"
• "But it is true that coppering is one of very few professions in which someone has the opportunity to use physical force on someone else – and have plenty of jargon and procedural loopholes to defend this action later."
• "Police work is not like banking, selling groceries, there are very few times in the 24/7 of coppering where the events are so routine that you can have a blue robot that will handle domestic violence, then go and sought out a squashed car from under a elm tree."