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

Television

• Cop Out (unsold pilot), a 1970s television game show by Chuck Barris that never got sold, starring Bill Bixby, Richard Dawson, and Michele Lee
• "Cop Out", a 1998 episode of Martial Law (TV series)

Film

• Cop-Out, a 1967 film based on the book The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon and starring James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin, Bobby Darin, and Ian Ogilvy[1]
• Chinese Cop Out, a 1989 action film starring Simon Yam and Ng Man Tat
• Cop-Out, a 1991 action/thriller film by Lawrence Simeone and David A. Prior starring Regie de Mornay[2]

Music

• "Cop Out", a song on the 1969 film Naked Angel
• "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 (originally by Martin Mull)
• Cop Out, 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

[edit] See also

• Cop
• Out
• Weasel word