Word.ws English Dictionary

copping one's whack

copping one's whack is the present participle and gerund of cop one's whack.

Meaning of cop one's whack

Verb

cop one's whack (third-person singular simple present cops one's whack, present participle copping one's whack, simple past and past participle copped one's whack)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To die.
    • ...or the time the phone rang in the middle of the night and they knew before they answered that Auntie Jeanie had copped her whack.2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 29

Questions about copping one's whack

What is copping one's whack the present participle and gerund of?
Copping one's whack is the present participle and gerund of cop one's whack.

Words near copping one's whack in the dictionary

  1. copping a load of
  2. copping a plea
  3. copping off
  4. copping off with
  5. copping on
  6. copping one's whack
  7. copping oneself on
  8. copping onto
  9. copping out
  10. copping the needle
  11. Coppinger

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: copping one's whack (page history and authors); cop one's whack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “copping one's whack.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/copping_one%27s_whack. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.