cop one's whack

English

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. (slang, idiomatic) To die.
   • 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 29:

     ...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.

   • 2011, Ross Raisin, Waterline, →ISBN:

     See if there's anybody deserves to cop their whack then it's him, surely, it's him and all the rest of they lying bastards, because they knew, they knew long before anybody else did.

   • 2012, Lee Battersby, The Corpse-Rat King, →ISBN:

     Pick a day, pick a week, and if the big man cops his whack, you're in.