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An event or climax that is extremely built up to and hyped, only to turn out to be a completely boring and utterly unimpressive waste of time.
The ending to Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain.
"Wait...the completely unstoppable supervirus turned into a non-lethal form. Now it eats rubber instead of killing people! We are saved!"
Reader: "What a fucking cop out."
1. When someone consistantly backs out of arrangements, meetings, social events, gigs and life altogether.
2. Always highly unreliable, can never be trusted to be somewhere. People of this nature generally have a small penis as they cannot bare the shame of being out in public where everyone around them have bigger penis'
1. Chris would have met up with his friends today but being a cop out, he stayed in and watched child anime porn then played with his sisters.
2. Vaughan is such a cop out!
Refers to any pathetically-threadbare "easy-but-ineffective solution" excuse used to maintain the infamous "blue wall of silence" and avoid having to terminate --- or at least adequately discipline --- a morally-delinquent officer for grossly unacceptable actions.
Disgruntled citizen, speaking to his wife over morning coffee and reading the newspaper: Huh --- says here that the sheriff claims his deputies just need "additional training" in the wake of a spate of police-brutality and racial-profiling complaints... what a cop-out! The problem is that those piglice are dyed-in-the-wool assholes, and he knows it --- "training" isn't gonna help THOSE sadistic bullies; they behave that way due to their basic evil/hurtful nature, not because they are merely not "learned" or "familiar" enough about their assigned duties or how they're supposed to act!
your back up shoes, or shoes that pretty much can go with any outfit.
When a person is too lazy to put much thought in to what shoes to wear to complete their outfit.
John: I can't find those blue shoes i need to go with my tie. I'm just gonna throw on my black ones.
Doe: Awww, u gon' throw on the cop outs? LOL.
A convenient way to tell someone that you don't want to do something with them because you've 'been exposed' to Covid-19 virus, yet not feel bad about it at all.
"Dude, I can't go to your BBQ tonight. The cable guy hooked up my new router today and I've been exposed. I'll need to self-isolate for at least 2 weeks." This is a classic example of the covid cop-out
Is a way to get out of school, because you didnt get your girlfriend a Valentine gift.
OMG! My boyfriend ben totally coped out and skiped school, to have more time to get my last minute shitty gift!