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Coolio
Coolio (Artis Leon Ivey Jr., 1963–2022) was an American rapper from Compton, California, whose 1995 hit "Gangsta's Paradise", built on Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise", topped charts worldwide and won a Grammy.
Coonskin (film)
Coonskin (1975), also developed as Coonskin No More and Harlem Nights, is Ralph Bakshi's live-action/animated satire of Brer Rabbit tales in Harlem, dropped by Paramount after CORE protests and released by Bryanston.
Coonskin cap
Coonskin cap: a raccoon-fur hat with face and tail, tied to Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. Never widely worn historically; became a 1950s fad via Fess Parker's Disney show, selling 5,000 caps a day.
Cooper and Fry (TV series)
Cooper & Fry is a British Channel 5 crime drama (2025) adapted from Stephen Booth's Peak District novels, starring Robert James-Collier as DC Ben Cooper and Mandip Gill as DC Diane Fry; renewed for an eight-episode second series airing 2027.
Cooper Koch
Cooper Koch (born 1996, Los Angeles) is an American actor, Pace University BFA graduate, known for They/Them, Swallowed, and as Erik Menendez in Netflix's Monsters, earning 2025 Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
Cooper Tomlinson
Cooper Tomlinson is an American actor and producer known for co-creating the sketch comedy channel That's a Bad Idea. He starred in the horror hit Obsession (2026).
Coors Brewing Company
Coors Brewing Company, founded 1873 in Golden, Colorado by Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler, is the American brewery behind Coors Banquet and Coors Light, now a Molson Coors subsidiary; known for surviving Prohibition, the 1959 aluminum can, and the long Coors boycott.
Coors Light
Coors Light is an American light lager introduced in 1978 in Golden, Colorado, known as the "Silver Bullet" and among the best-selling beers in the United States.
Cooties
Cooties are an imaginary playground contagion in American children's folklore, passed by touch, and also the name of Cootie, a Schaper bug-building game from 1949, now sold by Milton Bradley/Hasbro and known in England as Beetle Drive.
Cooties (film)
Cooties is a 2014 American horror comedy directed by Milott and Murnion, written by Leigh Whannell and Ian Brennan, starring Elijah Wood; tainted chicken nuggets turn pre-pubescent schoolchildren into zombies while teachers fight back.
Cop & ½
Cop & ½, also released as Cop and a Half, is a 1993 American family comedy in which Burt Reynolds plays a detective paired with an eight-year-old murder witness.
Cop Car (film)
Cop Car is a 2015 American independent thriller directed by Jon Watts, written with Christopher Ford, starring Kevin Bacon as a corrupt sheriff chasing two boys who steal his abandoned cruiser. Premiered at Sundance 2015, $800,000 budget, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Cop Out (2010 film)
Cop Out is a 2010 American buddy-cop action comedy directed by Kevin Smith, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as NYPD detectives chasing a stolen baseball card.
Cop slide
Cop Slide: extra-long metal tube slide at Boston's City Hall Plaza playground, famous since the August 1, 2023 viral video of a Boston police officer flying out face-first; an adult-use tourist landmark.
Cop Universe
Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe is a Hindi shared-universe franchise of police action films: Singham (2011), Singham Returns, Simmba (2018), Sooryavanshi (2021), Singham Again, plus the Amazon series Indian Police Force.
Copacabana (nightclub)
Copacabana (the Copa), New York nightclub opened 1940 at 10 East 60th Street; mob-linked via Frank Costello and Jules Podell; headlined Sinatra and Cole; famous from Manilow's 1978 song; later relocated, including West 34th Street.
Copacabana (song)
"Copacabana (At the Copa)" is Barry Manilow's 1978 story song with Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman, about Lola, Tony, and Rico; Grammy-winning, adapted into a 1985 CBS TV musical and a stage show.
Copán stelae
The Copán stelae are carved stone monuments, mostly portraits of Maya kings, erected at the city of Copán in western Honduras between the 5th and 9th centuries CE.
Copenhagen (tobacco)
Copenhagen is an American moist snuff (dipping tobacco) brand introduced in 1822, owned by Altria's U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company; high nicotine delivery, FDA modified-risk status in 2023, plus Skoal as sister brand.
Copenhagen Cowboy
Copenhagen Cowboy is a 2023 six-episode Danish-language Netflix neo-noir series created and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Angela Bundalovic as Miu, a supernatural avenger in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, with Lola Corfixen as Rakel.
Copenhell
Copenhell is a heavy metal festival held annually since 2010 at Refshaleøen, a former shipyard area in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded by Jeppe Nissen, it draws about 39,000 guests per day.
Copla (poetry)
A copla is a Spanish stanza of four verses, usually eight syllables each, with rhyme in the even lines, used as the basic unit of popular song.
Coplas por la muerte de su padre
Coplas por la muerte de su padre, also cited as Coplas a la muerte de su padre, is a Castilian elegy of forty stanzas by Jorge Manrique.
Coppélia
Coppélia (Coppélia, ou La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail) is Delibes's comic ballet of 1870, choreographed by Saint-Léon to a Nuitter libretto after Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, about Swanilda, Franz, and a lifelike doll.
Copper ion antimicrobial packaging
Copper ion antimicrobial packaging embeds copper or copper-releasing microparticles in food packaging films to kill microbes and extend shelf life; FDA GRN 1147 cleared copper(II) ion at 100 mg/m² in polyolefin packaging.
Copperhead (DC Comics)
Copperhead (John Doe) is a DC Comics snake-themed assassin and contortionist created by Bob Haney and Bob Brown, debuting in The Brave and the Bold #78 (1968). Transformed by Neron, killed by Manhunter; distinct from Image, Marvel, and G.I. Joe namesakes.
Coppola family
The Coppola family is an Italian-American filmmaking dynasty from Bernalda, Italy, spanning five generations: Francis Ford Coppola, Talia Shire, Nicolas Cage, Sofia and Roman Coppola, and Gia Coppola, plus the family winery and resorts.
Cops (1922 film)
Cops (1922) is a Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline two-reel silent comedy short, released March 11, 1922 by First National, in which Keaton is chased by the entire police force after a bomb explodes during a police parade.
Cops (TV program)
Cops is an American documentary reality television series created by John Langley and Malcolm Barbour, following police officers on patrol with camera crews; it premiered on Fox in 1989.
Copshop
Copshop is a 2021 action thriller directed by Joe Carnahan. It stars Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo, and features a rookie officer played by Alexis Louder.