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Coolie
Coolie: historical term for unskilled Asian laborers, especially Indian and Chinese indentured workers in colonial plantations; from Tamil kuli (wages); now widely a racial slur.
Coonass
Coonass (coon-ass) is a slang epithet for a Cajun, used chiefly in Louisiana and southeast Texas; offensive to some, a reclaimed badge of pride to others, with disputed etymology and contested legal status.
Cooper (profession)
A cooper is a craftsperson who makes and repairs casks, barrels, and other stave-built wooden vessels, a trade kept alive today by whisky and wine makers.
Cooper Hefner
Cooper Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner and Kimberly Conrad, is an American media executive who served as chief creative officer of Playboy and restored nude photography to the magazine in 2017 after calling its removal a mistake.
Cooper Manning
Cooper Manning, eldest son of Archie Manning and brother of Peyton and Eli, is a New Orleans businessman at AJ Capital Partners and Fox Sports host of The Manning Hour.
Cooper Union
Cooper Union, also known as the Cooper Institute, is a private college in Manhattan's East Village founded by Peter Cooper in 1859 to teach art, architecture, and engineering.
Cooperative
A cooperative, or co-op, is a jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprise serving its members' mutual benefit, with one member, one vote regardless of capital contributed.
Cooperative bank
A cooperative bank is a bank owned by its members, usually its depositors and borrowers, each with one vote regardless of shares held; shares cannot be traded.
Cooperative banking
Cooperative banking is banking carried out by banks owned by their customers, who hold non-marketable shares and govern on the principle of one member, one vote.
Cooperative learning
Cooperative learning is an instructional approach in which small groups of students work together to maximize their own and each other's learning, built on positive interdependence and individual accountability; meta-analyses show moderate positive effects (ES about 0.71) on achievement, higher-order thinking, and affective outcomes.
Cooperative principle
Grice's cooperative principle (CP), from "Logic and Conversation" (1975): make your conversational contribution as required by the accepted purpose of the talk exchange; basis of the four maxims and conversational implicature.
Cooperative scandal in Nepal
The cooperative scandal in Nepal is the large-scale misappropriation of member savings from savings and credit cooperatives, with a 2024 parliamentary probe finding Rs87.89 billion in liabilities at 40 cooperatives.
Coopetition
Coopetition is the practice of organizations collaborating with their competitors so that cooperation and competition operate at the same time, a strategy concept introduced in 1996.
Cooping
Cooping was a nineteenth-century election fraud in which gangs kidnapped people and forced them to vote repeatedly in disguises, and is linked to Edgar Allan Poe's death.
Coordination Framework
The Coordination Framework is Iraq's dominant alliance of Iran-aligned Shi'a parties, formed in 2021 to block Muqtada al-Sadr's majority government. Its factions include Badr, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and the Fatah Alliance; it installed PM al-Sudani in 2022 and chose Ali al-Zaidi in 2026.
Coordination of Azawad Movements
The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) is a coalition of Tuareg- and Arab-led armed groups in northern Mali, formed in 2014, that pursued self-determination claims for Azawad.
Cop Land
Cop Land is James Mangold's 1997 crime drama starring Sylvester Stallone as a New Jersey sheriff amid corrupt NYPD officers, with Keitel, De Niro, and Liotta; released August 15, 1997, grossing $44.9 million domestically.
Copacabana Fort revolt
The Copacabana Fort revolt (Revolta dos 18 do Forte) was a 1922 army officers' uprising against President Epitácio Pessoa in Rio de Janeiro, first revolt of tenentismo.
Copán dynasty
The Copán dynasty (Dinastía de Copán) was the ruling house of the Maya kingdom of Copán in Honduras, founded in 426 CE by K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo'.
Copán Stela D
Copán Stela D is a carved Maya stela erected in Copán's Main Plaza, Honduras, in 736, portraying the thirteenth ruler, 18 Rabbit, and interpreted as a sundial marking solstices and equinoxes.
Coparenting
Coparenting is the support, solidarity, and coordination between adults sharing a child's upbringing, studied across intact, divorced, step-, and kinship families; dimensions include cooperation, conflict, and triangulation, with meta-analytic links to child adjustment.
Copei
Copei, the Social Christian Party of Venezuela, is a Christian democratic party founded by Rafael Caldera in 1946 that won the presidency in 1969 and 1979.
Copeland's method
Copeland's method is a ranked voting rule scoring each candidate 1 point per pairwise win, 0 per loss, and 1/2 per tie; it always elects a Condorcet winner, dates to Llull (1299) and Copeland (1950s), and resists control and bribery.
Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) is a free 19-item questionnaire measuring burnout as exhaustion attributed separately to personal life, work, and client work, introduced by Danish researchers Tage Kristensen and colleagues in 2005.
Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen Business School (CBS, Handelshøjskolen) is a public Danish business university founded in 1917 in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. One of Europe's largest business schools with ~20,000 students, it is Triple Crown accredited (EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA) and one of Denmark's eight public universities.
Copenhagen criteria
Copenhagen criteria: the 1993 political, economic, and acquis conditions a European country must meet to join the European Union, set by the Copenhagen European Council and monitored by the European Commission.
Copenhagen fire of 1728
The Copenhagen fire of 1728 (Københavns brand) was the largest fire in Danish history, burning 1,670 houses and destroying the town hall, university, and its 35,000-book library.
Copenhagen fire of 1795
The Copenhagen fire of 1795 (Københavns brand 1795) burned from 5 to 7 June 1795, destroying 941 houses and the medieval town hall and Nikolaj Kirke church.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is a Danish fund-management company founded in 2012 that specializes in green-energy infrastructure and offshore wind, with about EUR 32 billion raised across 13 funds.
Copenhagen School (international relations)
The Copenhagen School in international relations, centered on Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver, and Jaap de Wilde at COPRI, developed securitization theory: security as a speech act accepted by an audience, plus desecuritization and Regional Security Complex Theory.