hensop, verb intransitive

Origin:: Afrikaans, EnglishShow more Afrikaans, adaptation of English command hands up.

colloquial

To surrender; imperative, ‘hands up’, ‘surrender’. Cf. hands-up sense a.

1947 C.R. Prance Antic Mem. 10A gruff voice growled ‘Hens-op’ at point-blank range.

1980 Cape Times 29 Mar. 8Nearly 2 percent of the total Boer forces of 54000 hendsopped (downed arms) in the first 10 months of conflict.

To surrender; imperative, ‘hands up’, ‘surrender’.

Derivatives:: Hence hensoppery /hensˈɔpəreɪ/ verbal noun [Afrikaans, noun-forming suffix -ery], figurative, the abandonment of a struggle.
1972 Sunday Times 22 Oct. 16The genuine Afrikaner..does not indulge in this type of political hensoppery where, when you are criticised for your own alleged defects, you run for shelter behind the skirts of Afrikanderdom.

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