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nap it en · VERB

Meanings

1. (UK, obsolete, slang) Synonym of catch it (“to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten”).
   • No doze a dozing by the way — You'll nap it if you do — so pray Walk along John! walk along, John! 1865, John Labern, Labern's Comic Minstrel, volume 1, page 40:
   • […] you'll nap it if you says any thing to they coves. 1952, Bulletin of the New York Public Library, volume 56, page 121:

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catch it