Cop a packet verb phrase
To be critically injured
Despite copping a packet after the explosion, John tried to crawl out of the rubble.
Some soldiers copped a packet during clashes with drug smugglers along the border.
The army was forced to retreat because their commander copped a packet.
Injured and/or exhausted, especially when this is the result of an assault or a physically demanding activity.
The verb "cop" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase derives from the military.
A problem or difficult circumstance
I'm short-sighted, so forgetting my glasses is a real hair in the butter for my sight.