Avoid and Cop out

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Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
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Cop out and avoid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cop out" instead a verb "Avoid".
Nearby Words: avoided, avoidance, avoidable, avoiding, avoidably

Cop out

Cop out verb - To break a promise or agreement.
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Avoid and cop out are semantically related. You can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Cop out".

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  • According to That Other Wiki, "Cop out is an idiom meaning to avoid taking responsibility for an action or to avoid fulfilling a duty." (Which, of course, is not related in the slightest to the other idiomatic meaning of "cop" as in Cops and Detectives, nor to the film Cop Out.)
    Source: Writer Cop Out
  • Censored Title To avoid complaints (and the restriction of ads to nighttime), the title of A Couple of Dicks was changed to Cop Out.
    Source: Censored Title
  • While most reviewers managed to avoid falling into the trap of blaming Kevin Smith for the screenplay of Cop Out, which he didn't write, many blamed him for what were felt to be weak action sequences in the movie.
    Source: Mis-blamed
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