get one's wig split

verb

To get one's head broken open, typically by someone else as punishment or vengeance.

Meanings

verbget one's wig split (third-person singular simple present gets one's wig split, present participle getting one's wig split, simple past got one's wig split, past participle got one's wig split or gotten one's wig split)

present singular third person gets one's wig split · participle present getting one's wig split · past got one's wig split · participle past got one's wig split · participle past gotten one's wig split

  1. slangTo get one's head broken open, typically by someone else as punishment or vengeance.
    1 more example

    So if you’re out there touching on kids or you’re a child molester or you got busted for having sex with an underage teenagers whatever the case may be, you go to prison, somebody’s going to find out about what you’re locked up for whether it’s a guard who don’t like you and tells someone else what you’re in there for or somebody has a person on the street to go online and check your paperwork, but one way or the other they’re going to find out you’re a child molester and you’re going to get your wig split.

    2023 July 21, Joshua Long, Jason Vukovich, “7: Convict Justice”, in Avenging Child Sex Abuse: Vigilante Violence in Prisons and the Community, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISBN
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