twoc
See also: TWOC
English edit
Etymology edit
From the legal term TWOC (“taken without owner's consent”).
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twoc (third-person singular simple present twocs, present participle twoccing or twocking, simple past and past participle twocced or twocked)
- (British regional, slang) To steal (especially a car).
- 2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171:
- Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.