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cut capers

cut capers verb: to engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.

Verb

cut capers (third-person singular simple present cuts capers, present participle cutting capers, simple past and past participle cut capers)

  1. To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.
    • I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I

Forms of cut capers

third-person singular presentcuts capers
present participlecutting capers
past participlecut capers
pastcut capers

Questions about cut capers

What does cut capers mean?
Cut capers means to engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.
What part of speech is cut capers?
Cut capers is a verb.
What is the past tense of cut capers?
The past tense of cut capers is cut capers.

Words near cut capers in the dictionary

  1. cut both ways
  2. cut buddies
  3. cut buddy
  4. cut cake
  5. cut cakes
  6. cut capers
  7. cut card
  8. cut cards
  9. cut cavendish
  10. cut class
  11. cut corners

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