Cop out

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Cop out is an idiom meaning to avoid taking responsibility for an action or to avoid fulfilling a duty.

Cop out or cop-out may also refer to:

• Cop-Out (play), a 1969 Broadway play starring Linda Lavin
• Cop-Out (video game), a 1986 video game by Raffaele Cecco
• Cop Out (book), a 1999 biography about the rugby 1981 Springbok Tour by Glenn Wood

Film and Television

• Cop Out (Game Show) (unsold pilot), a 1970s television game show by Chuck Barris that never got sold
• "Cop Out", a 1998 episode of Martial Law
• Cop-Out (1967 film), a 1967 film based on the book The Strangers in the House and starring Geraldine Chaplin
• Chinese Cop Out, a 1989 action film starring Simon Yam and Ng Man Tat
• Cop-Out (1991 film), a 1991 action/thriller film by Lawrence Simeone and David A. Prior

Music

• "Cop Out", a song on the 1969 film Naked Angels
• "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out", a 1993 single by the British band Freak Power
• "Cop Out", a song by Peter Hope and Richard H. Kirk on the 1994 album Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years
• "Chemical Cop-Out", a song on the 1995 album Hit & Run Holiday by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
• "Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope", a song on the 1996 Christmas compilation Just Say Noël by Sonic Youth
• Copout (band), a 1990s punk band made up of members who later went on to Warcry, His Hero Is Gone, Talk Is Poison
• "Cop Out", a song on the 2001 album Caught Off Guard by Much the Same
• "Copout", is also a song on the 2000 album Shorter, Faster, Louder by Kid Dynamite

[edit] See also

• Cop (disambiguation)
• Out
• Weasel word