skop, verb

/skɔp/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, to kick.
slang
1.
a. intransitive. To kick; also figurative, to enjoy oneself, let one’s hair down; cf. opskop.
Note:
Reduplication (as in quotation 1929) is a common phenomenon in South African English; see note at now-now for further examples.
c1929 S. Black in S. Gray Three Plays (1984) Frikkie: You want to fight? Smith: I don’t mind. Frikkie: Fair play or skopskop?
1973 Star 9 June 12Skop man. Skop. Skop.
1985 A. Goldstuck in Frontline 21They are all here to ‘skop ’n bietjie’ with the family. They’ve come to enjoy themselves, and, wragtig, nothing’s going to stop them.
b. transitive. To kick (something). Also figurative.
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 12 Apr. 95They even got steel toecaps, in case the cow you milking takes a step forward, then you jis skop her right back, see.
1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 57They going to skop me out? I want to see it. I want to see anybody try to kick me out.
1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 58He tunes me, ja that’s why they skopped me out of Iscor.
1988 Fair Lady 22 June (Suppl.) 20You’ve got a room where you can just skop off your shoes and be yourself.
2. In phrases: skop die blik, skop die blikkie/ˌskɔp di ˈblək(i)/ [Afrikaans, ‘kick the tin’, die the + blik tin (+ -ie)], a children’s game of hide and seek (called ‘Lerky’ or ‘Urkey’ in British English) in which a tin is the den and any player able to kick it and shout ‘Skop die blik!’ frees those already blocked; to skop it, to die, to ‘kick the bucket’; to skop lawaai [Afrikaans, lawaai disturbance, racket], to have a (rowdy) good time (see also lawaai).
c1966 M. Jabour in New S. Afr. Writing 93Doctor says as soon as your leg is strong enough you’ll be able to do everything. Even play Skop die Blik.
1971 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Ma we want to go to the Eksteens to play skop-die-blik.
1972 Drum 8 Apr.We are not out to skop lawaai..we wore expensive clothes and moved around with pretty dolls.
1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 49Like say — some ou’s going to kick the bucket and now you going to take him his oxygen cylinder before he actually skops it.
1987 P. Jooste in Fair Lady 25 Nov. 139Children played skop die blikkie in the street and got together impromptu cricket games.
1990 J. Rosenthal Wake Up Singing 26The church hall enveloped in a haze of dust from the early morning games of soccer and ‘skop die blik’ going on round it.
1991 R. Greenblo in Farmer’s Weekly 25 Jan. 54Stories for Joan were not Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and Piglet, but South African songs..and recollections of games like skop-die-blik and bok-bok which her mother had played many years before.
To kick; also figurative, to enjoy oneself, let one’s hair down;
To kick (something). Also figurative.
In phrases: skop die blik, skop die blikkie/ˌskɔp di ˈblək(i)/ [Afrikaans, ‘kick the tin’, die the + blik tin (+ -ie)], a children’s game of hide and seek (called ‘Lerky’ or ‘Urkey’ in British English) in which a tin is the den and any player able to kick it and shout ‘Skop die blik!’ frees those already blocked; to skop it, to die, to ‘kick the bucket’; to skop lawaai [Afrikaans, lawaai disturbance, racket], to have a (rowdy) good time (see also lawaai).
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skop, nounn.2skop, skiet, en donder, noun phrasen. phr. & adjectival phraseadj. phr.
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