Dictionary

twoc en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /twɒk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From the legal term TWOC (“taken without owner's consent”).

Meanings

1. (UK, regional, slang) To steal (especially a car).
   • Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus. 2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171:
   • Most familiarly, juveniles twoc cars. But, I suggest, readers twoc writings. 1994 Winter, John Hartley, “Twoccing and joyreading”, in Terence Hawkes, editor, Textual Practice, volume 8, number 3, page 2:
   • James Harris also left a note saying "North Shields crew, if you don't keep it locked, it will get twocked" on the victim's TV 2015 June 22, Sara Nichol, “North Shields window cleaner poured bleach over victim's clothes when he burgled her house”, in Chronicle Live:
   • A frustrated Kim, in a bright yellow waistcoat that looked like someone had made a hi-viz tabard out of Big Bird, twocked Vincent’s car and had a high octane 2mph crash with Dot Branning. 2016 October 18, Ian Hyland, “EastEnders has been a load of rubbish - but Kim's driving test could change that”, in Daily Mirror:
   • Joyriders are generally introduced to ‘twoccing’ by friends and it is seen as exciting, with many recounting the thrill, excitement and ‘buzz’ involved. 1998, Hazel Croall, Crime and Society in Britain, Longman, →ISBN, page 220:
   • [The sentence was imposed in August by Judge Passfield, after he had pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without consent.] 2023 November 28, Gareth Crickmer, “Sunderland man gets banned from drinking alcohol after twocking car, then gets caught out by ankle tag”, in Sunderland Echo:

Forms

Deriveds

twoccing · twoccer

Relateds

TWOC