Cop Out Edit Meaning

1.

n. An excuse designed to shirk responsibility.

Don't say you need to aaronize. That's just a cop out.

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2.

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.

See copout, excuse

3.

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 Pythonto 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".

See copout, copping out

4.

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!

See cop, out, bail, lazy, chris

5.

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."

See anticlimax, stupid, disappointment, let-down, dumb

6.

Is a way to get out of school, because you didnt get your girlfriend a Valentine gift.

OMG! My boyfriend ben totally coped out and skiped school, to have more time to get my last minute shitty gift!