(informal, disapproving) a way of avoiding doing sth that you should do, or an excuse for not doing it:
The ending of the film is a cop-out-the director didn't really want to face up to the racial issues involved.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cop-out is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cop-out a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cop-out is tagged as noun.
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