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cap up

cap up verb: to divide (a drug) into capsules.

Verb

cap up (third-person singular simple present caps up, present participle capping up, simple past and past participle capped up)

  1. (slang, transitive) To divide (a drug) into capsules.
    • Eventually we got it all capped up, one thousand doses just like Rob had said. […] I was going to become a three-drug connection to all my friends, psychedelics, hash and pot.2006, Dean McCormick, Dead End Street, page 62
  2. (UK) To modify (the initial letter of a word) to be a capital letter.
    • Do not cap up "oblast" or "province" in place names.
    • Secretaries of State: Cap up titles, as in Home Secretary David Blunkett and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.2004, Tony Harcup, Journalism: Principles and Practice, SAGE Publications, Style Guide for Journalists, page 137

Forms of cap up

third-person singular presentcaps up
present participlecapping up
past participlecapped up
pastcapped up

Questions about cap up

What does cap up mean?
Cap up means to divide (a drug) into capsules.
What part of speech is cap up?
Cap up is a verb.
What is the past tense of cap up?
The past tense of cap up is capped up.

Words near cap up in the dictionary

  1. cap snatching
  2. cap stealing
  3. CAP syndrome
  4. cap table
  5. cap tables
  6. cap up
  7. cap'in
  8. cap'ins
  9. cap'n
  10. Cap'n Obvious
  11. cap'ns

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