0 present participle of cop UK informal or slang
I feel that some parents are copping out and that some are unprepared to discipline their children.
I believe that these can be tackled only by reform from within and not by "copping out".
It was a complete cop-out, and it has been copping out ever since on the question of identification evidence.
That is a credit to them, but it is worrying that once again the football clubs are copping out.
There is no way of copping out of the difficult issues by thinking that there is some magic gentleman or lady who can act as arbiter and solve the problem.
These words offer a way of redefining one's values that doesn't mean copping out or giving up.
Copping was known as a hard and strong player; his most famous quote was the first man in a tackle never gets hurt.
Slade has gone from redoing classics of the genre to copping riffs and writing their own rock essays.
