A fork of Rural Dictionary
a bastardization of working with company while a student in college for alleged "mutual benefit", or the exploitation of college students as low paid somewhat educated technical bitch labor, or a person who wastes time at work by emailing other co-ops all day
I can't believe that my years of learning have gotten me this Office Space-esque monkey job as a (CAD, Excel, MS Office, etc.) bitch. Also: We sent an average of 347.53 emails per day on teh co-op email list.
Co-op is a bastardization of Co-operative, which means "done with cooperation". It is a commonly used term in multiplayer gaming to refer to a mode of play in the game where two or more players work together in playing the game.
I'm tired of deathmatching. Does anybody want to play some co-op?
A place which a homeschooled student can go to receive homework for fairly extensive periods of time.
"Sam went to his co-op yesterday-- I think he might be too stressed out to go swing dancing with me tomorrow night!"