nap it

English

Verb

nap it (third-person singular simple present naps it, present participle napping it, simple past and past participle napped it)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of catch it (“to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten”).
   • 1865, John Labern, Labern's Comic Minstrel (volume 1, page 40)

     No doze a dozing by the way —
     You'll nap it if you do — so pray
     Walk along John! walk along, John!

   • 1952, Bulletin of the New York Public Library (volume 56, page 121)

     […] you'll nap it if you says any thing to they coves.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary