English
twoc
see also: TWOC
Verb

twoc (twocs, present participle twoccing; past and past participle twocced)

  1. (British regional, slang) To steal (especially a car).
Related terms
TWOC
Noun

twoc

  1. (British, law enforcement) (The crime of) taking (a car) without the consent of the owner.
    • 2002, Louise Westmarland, Gender and Policing, Routledge (ISBN 9781135993429):
      […] women making arrests for aggravated burglary represent 22 per cent of the total and for aggravated TWOCs, 23 per cent […]
    • 2010, Anthony Bottoms, Julian Roberts, Hearing the Victim: Adversarial Justice, Crime Victims and the State, Routledge (ISBN 9781317436782), page 121:
      […] the reported victimisation rate for TWOC and attempted TWOC (six out of 28 available vehicles victimised, and […] )
Adjective

twoc (not comparable)

  1. (British) Of a car, taken without consent of the owner.
Noun

twoc (plural twocs)

  1. Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color.
    • 2015, Violence Against Queerfolk, in Raix/zine, volume 1, issue 2, page 9:
      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.
    • 2016, Ellen L. Short, Leo Wilton, Talking About Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations and Social Systems (ISBN 9781681233864), page 156:
      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 violence


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