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cop-outnoun
Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out.
His disappearance on the day of the audition was just a cop-out.
cop-outnoun
An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.
It was a cop-out to say he couldn't sign the petition because he sprained his wrist.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cop-out in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cop-out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of cop-out in a Sentence
Sometimes, it’s a make-or-miss game, i hate to give the cop-out, but they shot it well. We’ve got to shoot it better.
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.
I hate to be a cop out for you guys all the time, but I do have to look at it. I just don’t know what it does yet, there is the issue of, you know, DC does what DC wants to do and let DC do what they do, but we do have some oversight.
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992:
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who 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.
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