copping a plea (verb) cop a plea: plead guilty for a lesser sentence
Sinonime: adjustability, affability, bounce*, complaisance, compliance, docility, ductility, elasticity, extensibility, flaccidity, flexibleness, give, limberness, litheness, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring*, springiness, suppleness, tensility, tractability