Twoc

//twɒk// adj, noun, verb, slang

adj, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The crime of taking a car without the consent of the owner. British, countable, uncountable

    "[…] women making arrests for aggravated burglary represent 22 per cent of the total and for aggravated TWOCs, 23 per cent […]"

  2. 2
    Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "There is no scientific or medical research to support "trans panic" theory, and this defence is nothing but a poor justification for committing violence against TWOC."

  3. 3
    Abbreviation of trial without catheter. abbreviation, alt-of
Verb
  1. 1
    To steal (especially a car). UK, regional, slang

    "Most familiarly, juveniles twoc cars. But, I suggest, readers twoc writings."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a car, taken without consent of the owner. British, not-comparable

Synonyms

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chorechore

Example

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"[…] women making arrests for aggravated burglary represent 22 per cent of the total and for aggravated TWOCs, 23 per cent […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Initialism of "taken (or taking) without owner's consent". From section 12 of the United Kingdom's Theft Act 1968, which states 'a person shall be guilty of an offence if, without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority, he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use or, knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority, drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it'.

Etymology 2

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

Related phrases

trans women of color

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