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cop out
verb- to avoid an issue by making excuses; to go back on your word US
- [O]ff we go, 2 girls and me and Neal, bleary, driving into woods of California for orgy, but one girl cops out[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to John Clellon Holmes, p. 339, 8 February 1952
- So I cop out, from the lot, from life, all of it, go to sleep in the bedroom[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 90, 1958
- I’m not trying to cop out, but I was playing it too safe that afternoon at your house. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 32, 1965
- He stuttered and blinked trying to “cop out” because we’d surprised him. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 59, 1967
- Even Flo Kennedy, our chief lawyer, copped out–though some of the younger legal-beagels (women, bless’em) were ready to carry the fight to the floor of the Pageant[.] — Screw, p. 14, 13 October 1969
- The line between madness and masochism was already hazy; the time had come to pull back ... to retire, hunker down, back off and “cop out,” as it were. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 81, 1971
- All the way over here I was telling you how he would cooperate. Now, he’s just copping out. — Donald Goines, Inner City Hoodlum, p. 60, 1975
- to confess; to enter a guilty plea US, 1938
- I copped out on the larceny charges, figuring to get six months at the most[.] — James Blake, The Joint, p. 13, 25 February 1951
- “She’s gonna cop out,” Davis told him. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 115, 1960
- I was supposed to take a jury trial, but the lawyer told me he’d get me eighteen months if I’d cop out. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 141, 1965
- I copped out to attempted larceny and was given one to two years in the state prison at Jackson, Michigan. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 59, 1973
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