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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