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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cop out slang vb - (intr, adverb) to fail to assume responsibility or to commit oneself
n cop-out - an instance of avoiding responsibility or commitment
Etymology: 20th Century: probably from cop1 ˈcop-ˌout, n. [countable]- an act or instance of failing to keep a promise or of avoiding a responsibility:His usual cop-out for not visiting his children is that he has to work on weekends.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cop1 /kɑp/USA pronunciation v., copped, cop•ping. Informal.- to seize or steal:She copped first prize in the contest.
- cop out, [no object]to avoid a responsibility:He was going to help us but at the last minute he copped out.[~ + out + on + object]Don't cop out on us again.
Idioms- Idioms cop a plea, to plea-bargain.
cop2 /kɑp/USA pronunciation n. [countable][Informal.]- Informal Terms a police officer.
cop., an abbreviation of:- copyright;
copyrighted.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cop-out (kop′out′),USA pronunciation n. [Informal.]- Informal Termsan act or instance of copping out;
reneging;
evasion:The governor's platform was a cop-out. - Informal Termsa person who cops out:Everyone helped as they had promised, except for one cop-out.
- noun, nominal use of verb, verbal phrase cop out 1940–45
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cop1 (kop),USA pronunciation v.t., copped, cop•ping. [Informal.]- Informal Termsto catch;
nab. - Informal Termsto steal;
filch. - Informal Termsto buy (narcotics).
- Idioms cop a plea:
- to plead guilty or confess in return for receiving a lighter sentence.
- to plead guilty to a lesser charge as a means of bargaining one's way out of standing trial for a more serious charge;
plea-bargain.
- cop out:
- to avoid one's responsibility, the fulfillment of a promise, etc.;
renege;
back out (often fol. by on or of ):He never copped out on a friend in need. You agreed to go, and you can't cop out now. - cop a plea.
- Latin capere
- compare cap (obsolete) to arrest, Scots cap to seize dialect, dialectal Old French caper to take, ultimately 1695–1705
- Informal Termsa police officer.
- a person who seeks to regulate a specified behavior, activity, practice, etc.:character cops.
- clipping of copper2 1855–60
- a conical mass of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a spindle.
- British Termscrest;
tip.
- bef. 1000; Middle English, Old English cop tip, top (in Middle English also head), probably cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf head; see cup
- ThermodynamicsSee coefficient of performance.
Cop., - Copernican.
- ReligionCoptic.
cop., - Chemistrycopper.
- copyright;
copyrighted.
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