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all caps

all caps noun: text or a font in which all letters are capitalised.

Noun (1)

all caps (uncountable)

  1. Text or a font in which all letters are capitalised.
    • It's ugly, like look at you, it's a damn shame / Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name2004, “All Caps”, performed by Madvillain

Noun (2) capitalized: ALL CAPS

ALL CAPS (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of all caps.

Forms of all caps

alternative formall-caps
alternative formALL CAPS

Origin of all caps

From "all capital letters".

Questions about all caps

What does all caps mean?
All caps means text or a font in which all letters are capitalised.
What part of speech is all caps?
All caps is a noun.

Words near all caps in the dictionary

  1. all bluff and bluster
  2. all but
  3. all but dissertation
  4. all but thesis
  5. All Cannings
  6. all caps
  7. all cats are beautiful
  8. all cats are gray at night
  9. all cats are gray in the dark
  10. all cats are grey at night
  11. all cats are grey by night

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Adapted from Wiktionary: all caps (page history and authors); ALL CAPS (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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