cop out

Speech parts

1. cop out - Noun

2. cop out - Verb

Meaning

choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

cop-out

Synonyms

evade back down opt out sidestep renege chicken out back out go back on weasel out

Antonyms

face weather ask for trouble

Hypernyms

choose prefer opt

Examples

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out. Paul Newman

You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out. Gil Scott-Heron

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out. Natalie Imbruglia

She copped out when she was supposed to get into the hang glider Source: Internet

But the BBC's move was condemned as a 'complete cop-out' last night. Source: Internet

Depending on your point of view, this is either a deplorable cop-out or the defense of a pragmatic politician who, despite his relative inexperience, led the nation into a recovery for which Donald Trump gleefully took credit a decade later. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cop off with cop on cop oneself on cop out of cop shop cop some z's