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