Definitions for caper

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caper ca·per

Spelling: [key-per]

IPA: /ˈkeɪ pər/

Caper is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in caper (acepr).

Definitions for caper

noun

1. a playful leap or skip.
2. a prank or trick; harebrained escapade.
3. a frivolous, carefree episode or activity.
4. Slang. a criminal or illegal act, as a burglary or robbery.
5. a spiny shrub, Capparis spinosa, of Mediterranean regions, having roundish leaves and solitary white flowers.
6. its flower bud, which is pickled and used for garnish or seasoning.

Idioms

1. cut a caper. cut (def 84).

verb (used without object)

1. to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.

Origin of caper

1585-95; figurative use of Latin caper he-goat (cognate with Old English hæfer, Old Norse hafr, Old Irish caera sheep *kap-(e)ro- for a domesticated smaller animal); for the meaning, cf.

Examples for caper

So saying, Hilbert began to caper about the deck in the exuberance of his joy.

If roasted, it should be served with red-currant jelly; if boiled, with caper sauce.

They followed their first film with the James Bond-ish caper Help!

For instance, Antonio Reyna met English in a McAllen bar the night before the caper and somehow wound up in the van the next day.

I sought them out and mapped out what a true-to-life 21st-century caper would look like at the most powerful bank in capitalism.

What is fact regarding the U.S. version is that it started off as a North by Northwest-style caper for Tom Cruise.

Adams gave a caper, and cry'd out, "It would do; for that he had sixpence himself."

caper sauce, by adding capers; or, as a substitute, chopped gherkin.

So saying, Rollo began to caper about with delight, and then ran off to meet his uncle.

A week after the caper, Brian Wedgworth, the lookout, went back to the border wall.