Usually means: Avoiding responsibility through inadequate excuses.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word cop out:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cop-out, cop out: Merriam-Webster
  2. cop-out, cop out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cop-out: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cop-out, cop-out, cop out: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cop out: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cop-Out, cop-out: Wordnik
  7. cop-out, cop out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cop-out, cop out: Wiktionary
  9. cop-out: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cop-out: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cop-out: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cop-out, cop out: Dictionary.com
  13. cop-out: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cop out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. cop out: Rhymezone
  16. cop out: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cop out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cop-out, cop out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Cop-out: World Wide Words
  20. cop out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cop out: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cop out, cop out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cop-out: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cop out)

verb:  (idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
verb:  To plead guilty and ask for mercy.
verb:  (idiomatic, slang) To blame; to assign blame to; to get into trouble.
verb:  (idiomatic, dated, US) To remove from a situation or crowd, such as for arrest or punishment.
verb:  To leave a gang.
verb:  (idiomatic, slang) To abandon, let down or betray (someone).
verb:  (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To win (someone) over; to get on (someone's) good side.

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