twoc
/twɒk
/verb (twocs, twoccing, twocced) [with object] British informal
Steal (a car): people are fed up with having their cars twocced...
- How many cars do they have to twoc before they get on the course?
- Would they claim that if car theft (and twoccing) were totally stopped that all the former car thieves would go out and buy one?
- When Matt, Jake, and Jake's girlfriend, Jools, twocced a Ferrari one night, they had a terrible accident.
Derivatives
twoccer
- Never a day goes past, without we hear of someone being mugged, a twoccer running someone over, a house raided for drugs and the occupants arrested, and so on.
- The main character of this novel is sixteen-year-old, Matt, a twoccer who learned all the tricks of the trade from Jake, the older brother he idolizes.
- I just remember a scam where some twoccers started doing this and pulling over taxis and then robbing them.
Origin
1990s (originally police slang): acronym from taken without owner's consent.