twoc

present singular third person twocs · participle present twoccing · participle present twocking · participle past twocced · past twocced · participle past twocked · past twocked · alternative twock

1. UKregionalslangTo steal (especially a car).

   Most familiarly, juveniles twoc cars. But, I suggest, readers twoc writings.

   1994 Winter, John Hartley, “Twoccing and joyreading”, in Terence Hawkes, editor, Textual Practice, volume 8, number 3, page 2

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   Joyriders are generally introduced to ‘twoccing’ by friends and it is seen as exciting, with many recounting the thrill, excitement and ‘buzz’ involved.

   1998, Hazel Croall, Crime and Society in Britain, Longman, →ISBN, page 220

   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

   2015 June 22, Sara Nichol, “North Shields window cleaner poured bleach over victim's clothes when he burgled her house”, in Chronicle Live

   Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.

   2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171

   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.

   2016 October 18, Ian Hyland, “EastEnders has been a load of rubbish - but Kim's driving test could change that”, in Daily Mirror

   [The sentence was imposed in August by Judge Passfield, after he had pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without consent.]

   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

plural TWOCs

1. UKcountableuncountablegovernmentThe crime of taking a car without the consent of the owner.

   […] the reported victimisation rate for TWOC and attempted TWOC (six out of 28 available vehicles victimised, and […])

   2010, Anthony Bottoms, Julian Roberts, Hearing the Victim: Adversarial Justice, Crime Victims and the State, Routledge, →ISBN, page 121

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   […] women making arrests for aggravated burglary represent 22 per cent of the total and for aggravated TWOCs, 23 per cent […]

   2002, Louise Westmarland, Gender and Policing, Routledge, →ISBN

1. UKnot comparableOf a car, taken without consent of the owner.

plural TWOCs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color.

   There is no scientific or medical research to support "trans panic" theory, and this defence is nothing but a poor justification for committing violence against TWOC.

   2015, “Violence Against Queerfolk”, in Raix/zine, volume 1, number 2, page 9

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   Her advocacy campaign, “Stop the Unjust Arrests of TWOC (Transgender Women of Color), #FreeEisha,” challenges what to be an inevitability for Black transgender women who dare to defend themselves against gender-based violence

   2016, Ellen L. Short, Leo Wilton, Talking About Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations and Social Systems, →ISBN, page 156

plural TWOCs

1. abbreviationmedicineAbbreviation of trial without catheter.