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to cop out v. dialect slang.
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d. to cop out: to escape; to stop (work, etc.); to drop out from society; also, to give up an attempt, to evade a responsibility (chiefly North American). slang.
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the world > action or operation > completing > non-completion > abandon an attempt or enterprise [verb (intransitive)]
unbenda1400
unbinda1400
to leave (a person) the field?c1450
to give upa1616
to call (it) quits1851
to pull the pin1860
to hang up one's fiddle1889
to pack in1906
to pack up1925
to cop out1942
to give it away1949
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > as thieves or criminals
to take stoppo1935
to cop out1942
to do a runner1980
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > evade responsibility or obligation
to cop out1942
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §498/3 Flee; escape, cop,..cop (an) out.
1961 F. J. Rigney & L. D. Smith Real Bohemia p. xiv Cop, to; — out,..to give up Bohemian values, to ‘sell out to squares’.
1967 Jazz Monthly Dec. 19/2 One might expect him to be playing from memory to some extent, taking it easy and copping out when he can.
1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3–4 30, 31 Cop out,..to quit, give up without trying.
1969 It 13–28 June 1 After Photoprinters..copped out..It..appeared in a limited edition.
1970 Win 1 Jan. 25/3 The intellectuals, so many of whom were kept from copping out by Bob's continuing commitment in the face of death.
1973 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 30 Dec. 20/5 One gets the feeling that Jewison's use of modern tanks..and frenetic dance routines gives him some sort of an excuse to cop out if he needed to do so.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters x. 396 Did Gibbons cop out where a stronger man would have acted?
1986 New Statesman 4 July 3/3 But Peacock and Co...could hardly cop out at that early stage and announce that advertising on the BBC would be a bad thing.
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