COPOUT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A failure to face some difficulty squarely

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("copout" is a kind of...):

failure (an unexpected omission)

Derivation:

cop out (choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing)

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