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Definition of Copout
1. Noun. A failure to face some difficulty squarely.
Definition of Copout
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of cop-out) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Copout
1. a backing out of a responsibility [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copout
Literary usage of Copout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Focus of Demons: Real Gremlins in the Works by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"MAR.21 1994 MEDITATION YOGA FINDING YOURSELF copout OR WHY DON'T YOU JUST DO
SOMETHING? With the world falling apart, five years of work piled up to be done ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Freund says that by some students "the last ingredient will be regarded as a
copout." versity during the campus reaction to the US incursion into Cambodia ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"copout, "To play сором/," to drink off all that is in a cup or drinking vessel,
cap-on/, S. Doug. Virgil, 36. 61. V. COVAS. ..."
4. An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn (1845)
"copout, 4 T. East, 498, recognized by Parke, B., in Doe 109. (4) Doe on d.
of Heapy v. Howard, 11 R. 361; but see Doe d.Leicester, 2 Taunt. ..."
5. The Sempill Ballates: A Series of Historical, Political, and Satirical by Robert Sempill (1872)
"copout, 203, " to play co- pout," to drink of all that is in a drinking cup or
drinking vessel. ..."
6. Nature, Extent, and Proliferation of Federal Law Enforcement: Hearing Before edited by Bill McCollum (1998)
"I think frequently in this setting commissions are looked on as a copout, some
way to shift a hot potato out of the lap of one group into another. ..."
7. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"The urban designer and concept architect was Geoffrey copout It was an architectural
exploit at a moment when many ofthe architectural avantgarde were ..."
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