Usually means: Avoiding responsibility through excuses, evasion.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word cop-out:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cop-out: Merriam-Webster
  2. cop-out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cop-out: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cop-out, cop-out: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cop-Out, cop-out: Wordnik
  6. cop-out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cop-out: Wiktionary
  8. cop-out: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cop-out: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cop-out: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cop-out: Dictionary.com
  12. cop-out: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. cop-out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Cop-out: World Wide Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cop-out, cop-out, cop-out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cop-out: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See cop-outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (slang) Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out.
noun:  (slang) An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.
noun:  (slang) A person who cops out.

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