twoc
UK/twɒk/
twoc verb: to steal (especially a car).
Verb
twoc (third-person singular simple present twocs, present participle twoccing or twocking, simple past and past participle twocced or twocked)
- To steal (especially a car).
- 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
- 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
Noun (1) capitalized: TWOC
TWOC (countable and uncountable, plural TWOCs)
- The crime of taking a car without the consent of the owner.
- […] women making arrests for aggravated burglary represent 22 per cent of the total and for aggravated TWOCs, 23 per cent […]2002, Louise Westmarland, Gender and Policing, Routledge, →ISBN
- […] the reported victimisation rate for TWOC and attempted TWOC (six out of 28 available vehicles victimised, and […])2010, Anthony Bottoms, Julian Roberts, Hearing the Victim: Adversarial Justice, Crime Victims and the State, Routledge, →ISBN, page 121
Adjective capitalized: TWOC
TWOC (not comparable)
- Of a car, taken without consent of the owner.
Noun (2) capitalized: TWOC
TWOC (plural TWOCs)
- Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color.
- 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.2015, “Violence Against Queerfolk”, in Raix/zine, volume 1, number 2, page 9
- Her advocacy campaign, “Stop the Unjust Arrests of TWOC (Transgender Women of Color), #FreeEisha,” challenges what to be an inevitability for Black transgender women who dare to defend themselves against gender-based violence2016, Ellen L. Short, Leo Wilton, Talking About Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations and Social Systems, →ISBN, page 156
Noun (3) capitalized: TWOC
TWOC (plural TWOCs)
Examples of twoc in a sentence
- 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 TV2015 June 22, Sara Nichol, “North Shields window cleaner poured bleach over victim's clothes when he burgled her house”, in Chronicle Live:
- 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:
- 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:
Forms of twoc
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | twocs |
| present participle | twoccing |
| present participle | twocking |
| past participle | twocced |
| past | twocced |
| past participle | twocked |
| past | twocked |
| alternative form | twock |
| Noun | |
| plural | TWOCs |
Origin of twoc
From the legal term TWOC (“taken without owner's consent”).
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'.
Words formed from twoc
Words that rhyme with twoc
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sock
- unlock
- baroque
- flock
- locke
- mock
- ad hoc
- frock
- unblock
- undock
- VOC
- chock
- defrock
- nock
- o'clock
- prairie dock
- proc
- smock
- acock
- amok
- bangkok
- bloc
- Carvel Rock
- doc
- grok
- hough
- loch
- pock
- slock
- wedlock
- wok
- 24-hour clock
- bock
- bok
- brocc
- choc
- croc
- digital clock
- drop lock
- Farallon Rock
- flight sock
- freezer block
- gock
- hashlock
- hock
- kozachok
- lough
- Nixon shock
Questions about twoc
- What does twoc mean?
- Twoc means to steal (especially a car).
- How do you use twoc in a sentence?
- 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
- What part of speech is twoc?
- Twoc can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce twoc?
- Twoc is pronounced /twɒk/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of twoc?
- The past tense of twoc is twocced.
Words near twoc in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: twoc (page history and authors); TWOC (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.
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