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knap it en · VERB
Meanings
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(obsolete, slang) Synonym of catch it (“to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten”).
Some of these times you'll knap it nastily; it isn't every one as falls in love with half a Bullock at the least, and all the tallow in the face.
1843, Francis Higginson, The Smugglers, page 114:KNAP […] Also, a blow or correction, as "you'll knap it," for some misdeed.
1867, William Henry Smyth, Sir Edward Belcher, The Sailor's Word-book, page 424:
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Synonyms
catch it