cop out
informal— phrasal verb with cop uk/kɒp/us/kɑːp/verb [ T ] -pp-
to avoid doing something that you should do or that you have promised to do because you are frightened, shy, or you think it is too difficult:
She copped out of the parachute jump at the last minute with some feeble excuse.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Avoiding action
- avoid
- avoid sth like the plague idiom
- avoidance
- bottle
- bottle out
- flinch from sth/doing sth
- fudge
- get out of sth
- get round sth
- get-out clause
- insure
- shrink
- sit on your arse idiom
- skip out on sb/sth
- stand around
- stand by
- stand round
- steer
- welch
- welsh
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