cop one's whack

verb

To die.

Meanings

verbcop one's whack (third-person singular simple present cops one's whack, present participle copping one's whack, simple past and past participle copped one's whack)

present singular third person cops one's whack · participle present copping one's whack · participle past copped one's whack · past copped one's whack

  1. idiomaticslangTo die.

    Pick a day, pick a week, and if the big man cops his whack, you're in.

    2012, Lee Battersby, The Corpse-Rat King, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    ...or the time the phone rang in the middle of the night and they knew before they answered that Auntie Jeanie had copped her whack.

    2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 29

    See if there's anybody deserves to cop their whack then it's him, surely, it's him and all the rest of they lying bastards, because they knew, they knew long before anybody else did.

    2011, Ross Raisin, Waterline, →ISBN
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