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Define Cop Out Meaning

Cop Out
n. An excuse designed to shirk responsibility.

Don't say you need to aaronize. That's just a cop out.
By Wandis
Cop Out
n. refers to taking the easy way out of a sticky situation. Placing blame on something else to make things easier for yourself is a a cop out

Saying you're sick just because you want to avoid a big test that you're prepared but scared for is a cop out.
By Edith
Cop Out
n. an excuse to take the easy way out, an excuse to not finish something in an acceptable way

This phrase was parodied by Monty Python to end some sketches. Instead of a climax or punch line, the police (cops) would turn up and arrest the characters. Therefore, they would literally "cop out" of finishing the sketch. The most notable was at the end of "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail".
By Tedi
Cop Out
An event or climax that is extremely built up to and hyped, only to turn out to be a completely boring and utterly unimpressive waste of time.

The ending to Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain.

"Wait...the completely unstoppable supervirus turned into a non-lethal form. Now it eats rubber instead of killing people! We are saved!"

Reader: "What a fucking cop out."
By Letisha
Copping Out
v. giving up on life because it seems worthless, depressing, or superficial

Switchfoot's "24" gives a message of hope when the lead singer repeats "I'm not copping out. Not copping out. Not copping out."
By Federica
Copped Out
To avoid fulfilling a responsibility. To renege on an agreement.

The term comes from the word "cop," to steal. It is in general usage, and has been long before any "song" by Eminem.

I was going to go to the movies with Gillian last night, but she copped out on me and made her father dinner.
By Muriel
Cop Out
when someone backs out from a responsibility or commitment because they're lazy or don't want to. The first simple definition that came to mind. To remember it, think of it this way: An angry Karen complains at the nearest police office(don't why but just for this ex.). The officer there named Jerry doesn't want to deal with that rn and leaves. He tells his trustworthy friend, officer Bob, "I'm out"...or in this case since he's a popo(slang for police), "COP OUT".

Even though Officer Jerry's shift wasn't over, Officer Bob still let Jerry cop out on dealing with the Karen bringing her problems to the police station because he's a good a friend. Kudos to him
By Carolyn
Cop Out
1. When someone consistantly backs out of arrangements, meetings, social events, gigs and life altogether.

2. Always highly unreliable, can never be trusted to be somewhere. People of this nature generally have a small penis as they cannot bare the shame of being out in public where everyone around them have bigger penis'

1. Chris would have met up with his friends today but being a cop out, he stayed in and watched child anime porn then played with his sisters.

2. Vaughan is such a cop out!

By Almira
Cop-out
Refers to any pathetically-threadbare "easy-but-ineffective solution" excuse used to maintain the infamous "blue wall of silence" and avoid having to terminate --- or at least adequately discipline --- a morally-delinquent officer for grossly unacceptable actions.

Disgruntled citizen, speaking to his wife over morning coffee and reading the newspaper: Huh --- says here that the sheriff claims his deputies just need "additional training" in the wake of a spate of police-brutality and racial-profiling complaints... what a cop-out! The problem is that those piglice are dyed-in-the-wool assholes, and he knows it --- "training" isn't gonna help THOSE sadistic bullies; they behave that way due to their basic evil/hurtful nature, not because they are merely not "learned" or "familiar" enough about their assigned duties or how they're supposed to act!
By Michel
Cop-out
(n) - an excuse to injure or kill someone that only works if you're a law enforcement officer: it gets a cop out of trouble.

"I feared for my life when he reached for his wallet,' is such a cop-out."
By Karola