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cop one's whack en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To die.
    • 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:
    • ...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:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
copping one's whack Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cops one's whack Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
copped one's whack Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
copped one's whack Tense=Past lexicographic