English

Verb

cooping

1. present participle of coop

Noun

cooping ‎(uncountable)

1. The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.
   • 1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, volume 2:

     The restriction (1835) of the time of voting to one day reduced the practice of cooping.

   • 1977, Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, Edward C. Papenfuse, Morris Leon Radoff, Law, society, and politics in early Maryland:

     Cooping, the political version of the shanghai, involved kidnapping citizens […]

   • 2001, Paul Knepper, Explaining criminal conduct: theories and systems in criminology:

     The Tories also engaged in "cooping," intimidating people into voting Tory.

   • 2014, Corinna Wagner, editor, Gothic Evolutions: Poetry, Tales, Context, Theory:

     Since then, there have been many other theories, including death from delirium tremens, mugging, and "cooping" (the electioneering practice of kidnapping and holding people in rooms, plying them with alcohol and/or opium and then forcing them to vote repeatedly at different locations).