pop a cap in someone's ass

Verb

pop a cap in someone's ass (third-person singular simple present pops a cap in someone's ass, present participle popping a cap in someone's ass, simple past and past participle popped a cap in someone's ass)

1. (slang, vulgar) To shoot someone with a gun.
   • I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you heard it, that meant your ass. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice.1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson)
   • The older teen was coming from "Tilt," the second floor arcade, when the shooter confronted him, threatened to "pop a cap in (his) ass," and, after the victim assumed what eyewitnesses say was a fighting stance, apparently did.2007 November 19, “'Cover me, I'm going to Starbucks'”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2009

   Synonyms:

   cap