wimp out
English
Verb
wimp out (third-person singular simple present wimps out, present participle wimping out, simple past and past participle wimped out)
- (informal, derogatory) To back out of something because of cowardice.
- 2009 February 4, Thomas L. Friedman, “Don’t Try This at Home”, in New York Times:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (behave like a wimp): chicken out
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