"TWOC" meaning in English

See TWOC in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From section 12 of the United Kingdom's Theft Act 1968, which states 'a person shall be guilty of an offence if, without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority, he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use or, knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority, drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it'. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} TWOC (not comparable)
  1. (British) Of a car, taken without consent of the owner. Tags: British, not-comparable Derived forms: twoc, twoccer, twoccing
    Sense id: en-TWOC-en-adj-J1rz-Iuj Categories (other): British English, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: TWOCs [plural]
Etymology: From section 12 of the United Kingdom's Theft Act 1968, which states 'a person shall be guilty of an offence if, without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority, he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use or, knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority, drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it'. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} TWOC (countable and uncountable, plural TWOCs)
  1. (British, law enforcement) The crime of taking a car without the consent of the owner. Tags: British, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law enforcement Translations (the crime of taking without the consent of the owner): 未獲授權而取用運輸工具 (Chinese Cantonese), 未获授权而取用运输工具 (mei6 wok6 sau6 kyun4 ji4 ceoi2 jung6 wan6 syu1 gung1 geoi6) (Chinese Cantonese), bilbrukstyveri [neuter] (Norwegian), brukstyveri av motorvogn [neuter] (Norwegian), egenmäktigt förfarande [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-TWOC-en-noun-w6CvK13A Categories (other): British English, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 54 46 Topics: government, law-enforcement
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: TWOCs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} TWOC (plural TWOCs)
  1. Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: trans woman of color or trans women of color Categories (topical): Transgender
    Sense id: en-TWOC-en-noun-zP9EDfyg Disambiguation of Transgender: 17 16 47 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 19 50 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 18 53 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 17 61 5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: TWOCs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} TWOC (plural TWOCs)
  1. (medicine) Abbreviation of trial without catheter. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: trial without catheter Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-TWOC-en-noun-~3K~LrQX Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.