knap it

English

Verb

knap it (third-person singular simple present knaps it, present participle knapping it, simple past and past participle knapped it)

  1. (obsolete, slang) Synonym of catch it (“to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten”).
    • 1867, William Henry Smyth, ‎Sir Edward Belcher, The Sailor's Word-book (page 424)
      KNAP […] Also, a blow or correction, as "you'll knap it," for some misdeed.
    • 1843, Francis Higginson, The Smugglers, page 114:
      Some of these times you'll knap it nastily; it isn't every one as falls in love with half a Bullock at the least, and all the tallow in the face.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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