Meaning of wimp out | Babel Free

Definitions

To back out of something because of cowardice.

derogatory, informal, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Your son has been a holy terror! He kept getting into trouble and refusing to mind me! After repeatedly trying to get him to behave, I finally gave up. I wimped out. I have the womb to be a parent, but not the backbone.”

“Meanwhile, the West Bank Palestinian leaders are busy publicly collecting food and blankets to help all those Palestinian civilians brutalized by the Israeli incursion into Gaza, while privately demanding to know from senior Israeli officials why they wimped out and didn’t wipe Hamas in Gaza off the face of earth — casualties be damned.”

“I could have taken a big chunk out of the show that day by wimping out.”

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