pasop, verb intransitive
/pasˈɔp/
- Origin:
- South African DutchShow more South African Dutch pas op, from its use as an interjection: see pas op.
To look out, to take care; oppas verb; pass-up sense a. Cf. boss up (see verbal phrase at boss up interjectional phrase).
1860 A.W. Drayson Sporting Scenes 151When you come across a wounded leopard, you ‘pas-op’ (take care), was Hendrick’s moral.
1994 C.J. Driver In Water-Margins 31The old gardener Who used to ask the basie to pasop For the seedlings and succulents is now Armed Response in an Instant.
To look out, to take care; oppas verb; pass-up sense a.
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