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capping up

capping up is the present participle and gerund of cap up.

Meaning of cap up

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.

Questions about capping up

What is capping up the present participle and gerund of?
Capping up is the present participle and gerund of cap up.

Words near capping up in the dictionary

  1. capping it off
  2. capping off
  3. capping on
  4. capping plane
  5. capping planes
  6. capping up
  7. cappings
  8. cappo
  9. Cappoquin
  10. cappos
  11. capps

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