TWOC

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'.

TWOC (countable and uncountable, plural TWOCs)

1. (British, law enforcement) The crime of taking a car without the consent of the owner.
   • 2002, Louise Westmarland, Gender and Policing, Routledge, →ISBN:

     […] 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, page 121:

     […] the reported victimisation rate for TWOC and attempted TWOC (six out of 28 available vehicles victimised, and […] )

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TWOC.

TWOC (not comparable)

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

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TWOC (plural TWOCs)

1. Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color.
   • 2015, “Violence Against Queerfolk”, in Raix/zine, volume 1, number 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, 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

TWOC (plural TWOCs)

1. (medicine) Abbreviation of trial without catheter.

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