capisces

Verb

capisce (third-person singular simple present capisces, present participle capiscing, simple past and past participle capisced)

1. (US, slang, transitive) To understand (someone or something).
   • "I need at least a B-plus, and no one—I repeat, NO ONE—can know that I didn't write it. This paper is vitally important to my future. Do you capisce what I'm saying to you? Very important." / We grumbled our understanding into the phone. "Yeah, yeah, we capisce," Ellie said.2013, Cindy Callaghan, chapter 12, in Lost in London, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin M!X, →ISBN, page 83
2. (US, intransitive, slang) To understand.
   • "Shoo, shoo, shoo, go help Pierfranco. He'll be bringing up heavy baskets, capisce?" I certainly capisced.2020 February, Stephanie Cole, chapter 18, in Al Dente’s Inferno (Tuscan Cooking School Mystery; 1), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 290

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