COPOUT

Cop Out

Cop Out is a 2010 American buddy cop comedy film directed and edited by Kevin Smith, and also written by Cullen brothers Mark and Robb Cullen, and starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Kevin Pollak and Seann William Scott. The plot revolves around two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card who find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed violent gangster. This is the first film that Smith directed for which he did not write the screenplay.

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cop out

Verb

  1. To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
    Faced with the prospect of cooking for himself, his first thought was to cop out and order a pizza.


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