See twoc on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From the legal term TWOC (“taken without owner's consent”).",
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{
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "twoccing",
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},
{
"form": "twocking",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
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},
{
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"past"
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},
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"form": "twocked",
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"past"
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}
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"expansion": "twoc (third-person singular simple present twocs, present participle twoccing or twocking, simple past and past participle twocced or twocked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"kind": "other",
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},
{
"kind": "topical",
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"name": "Crime",
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"Society",
"Law",
"All topics",
"Justice",
"Fundamental"
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}
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"derived": [
{
"word": "twoccer"
},
{
"word": "twoccing"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1994 Winter, John Hartley, “Twoccing and joyreading”, in Terence Hawkes, editor, Textual Practice, volume 8, number 3, page 2:",
"text": "Most familiarly, juveniles twoc cars. But, I suggest, readers twoc writings.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1998, Hazel Croall, Crime and Society in Britain, Longman, →ISBN, page 220:",
"text": "Joyriders are generally introduced to ‘twoccing’ by friends and it is seen as exciting, with many recounting the thrill, excitement and ‘buzz’ involved.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015 June 22, Sara Nichol, “North Shields window cleaner poured bleach over victim's clothes when he burgled her house”, in Chronicle Live:",
"text": "James Harris also left a note saying \"North Shields crew, if you don't keep it locked, it will get twocked\" on the victim's TV",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171:",
"text": "Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016 October 18, Ian Hyland, “EastEnders has been a load of rubbish - but Kim's driving test could change that”, in Daily Mirror:",
"text": "A frustrated Kim, in a bright yellow waistcoat that looked like someone had made a hi-viz tabard out of Big Bird, twocked Vincent’s car and had a high octane 2mph crash with Dot Branning.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 November 28, Gareth Crickmer, “Sunderland man gets banned from drinking alcohol after twocking car, then gets caught out by ankle tag”, in Sunderland Echo:",
"text": "[The sentence was imposed in August by Judge Passfield, after he had pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without consent.]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To steal (especially a car)."
],
"id": "en-twoc-en-verb-3Rr0w5zq",
"links": [
[
"regional",
"regional#English"
],
[
"steal",
"steal"
],
[
"car",
"car"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK regional, slang) To steal (especially a car)."
],
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{
"english": "British legal term",
"word": "TWOC"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "twock"
}
],
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"UK",
"regional",
"slang"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/twɒk/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
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}
],
"word": "twoc"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "twoccer"
},
{
"word": "twoccing"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the legal term TWOC (“taken without owner's consent”).",
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{
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "twocced",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "twocced",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "twocked",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "twocked",
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"past"
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}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
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"Rhymes:English/ɒk",
"Rhymes:English/ɒk/1 syllable",
"en:Crime"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1994 Winter, John Hartley, “Twoccing and joyreading”, in Terence Hawkes, editor, Textual Practice, volume 8, number 3, page 2:",
"text": "Most familiarly, juveniles twoc cars. But, I suggest, readers twoc writings.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1998, Hazel Croall, Crime and Society in Britain, Longman, →ISBN, page 220:",
"text": "Joyriders are generally introduced to ‘twoccing’ by friends and it is seen as exciting, with many recounting the thrill, excitement and ‘buzz’ involved.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015 June 22, Sara Nichol, “North Shields window cleaner poured bleach over victim's clothes when he burgled her house”, in Chronicle Live:",
"text": "James Harris also left a note saying \"North Shields crew, if you don't keep it locked, it will get twocked\" on the victim's TV",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171:",
"text": "Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016 October 18, Ian Hyland, “EastEnders has been a load of rubbish - but Kim's driving test could change that”, in Daily Mirror:",
"text": "A frustrated Kim, in a bright yellow waistcoat that looked like someone had made a hi-viz tabard out of Big Bird, twocked Vincent’s car and had a high octane 2mph crash with Dot Branning.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 November 28, Gareth Crickmer, “Sunderland man gets banned from drinking alcohol after twocking car, then gets caught out by ankle tag”, in Sunderland Echo:",
"text": "[The sentence was imposed in August by Judge Passfield, after he had pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without consent.]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To steal (especially a car)."
],
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[
"regional",
"regional#English"
],
[
"steal",
"steal"
],
[
"car",
"car"
]
],
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"(UK regional, slang) To steal (especially a car)."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"regional",
"slang"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒk"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "twock"
}
],
"word": "twoc"
}
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