ops, verb

slang
To give (someone something), typically a small gift or favour.
a1971 D. Hewitt, T. Haines, D. Macdonald, & M. Rakusin KES AND TELL (2020) 269It would happen pretty often that one or two boarders would approach me during a break to “ops me a zarm”, a request to share my food by giving them some or all of my sandwiches.
2009 A.L. Brest Memories of Johannesburg, City of Gold 36Ops me a pencil.
2014 tlcprojects.org.za (DSAE Corpus)So many Jewish guys would ops me a sarmie..I acquired my taste for pastrami on rye in those far-off days.
2020 M. Cito Otto in www.bizcommunity.com 14 Jan. (#MusicExchange)[Interviewer question:]Give us some real proper slang and what it means: “Ops us a go…” It means, “Let me have a turn”.
2022 D. Hirson My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah 36[A] group of us..took out our lunch boxes and opened our home-made, wax-paper-wrapped contents; all, that is, except for one boy who had forgotten to bring his sandwiches with him. Ops us a sarmie, he requested of no-one in particular.
To give (someone something), typically a small gift or favour.
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oprecht, adjectiveadj.opsaal, verb intransitivev.
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