Caper

Definitions: Caper

Caper

Noun

1. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.

2. Pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces.

3. A crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis".

4. A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.

5. Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly".

Verb

1. Jump about playfully.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "caper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

19th Century Satire

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Caper

Amusement

Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool.

Leap

Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade, gambado; capriole, demivolt; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade.

Crosswords: Caper

Latin (chevron, goat).

Milo, baby, lemme handle this one, eh? Crime's my baaag. I got this caper worked out ta the last detail! (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

Slow down love please chill drop the caper ("Warning"; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.)

The Classified Caper (1973)

Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1973)

The Alpha Caper (1973)

Catalina Caper (1967)

The Big Caper (1957)

Sad Caper (performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• McNally's Caper (reference)

• Scooby-Doo! and the Karate Caper (Scooby-Doo Mysteries, 23) (reference)

• The Case of the Summer Camp Caper (The New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, No. 11) (reference)

• The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper (reference)

• The Mediterranean Caper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sesame Street - Computer Caper (reference)

• The Great Muppet Caper (reference)

• Mystery Science Theater 3000: Catalina Caper (reference)

• Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Great Chicken Soup Caper E.P. (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Donald Duck: Lucky Dime Caper (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The proper caper.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Flimnap, the Treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "caper": Bean caper ♦ caper about ♦ caper berry ♦ caper bush ♦ caper family ♦ Caper sauce ♦ caper spurge ♦ Caper tree ♦ Colaptes caper collaris ♦ common caper ♦ Jamaica caper tree ♦ syrian bean caper ♦ To cut a caper. Additional references.

Beginning with "caper": caper-bush.

Containing "caper": bean-caper family.

Albanian

mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), marifet (art, artifice, dodge, fetch, gimmick, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, ploy, sleight of hand, stunt, trick), lodroj (gambol), keqbërje (evildoing, malediction, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, wrongdoing), kërcim (bounce, bouncing, bound, dance, fly, footer, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, rebound, skip, spring, vault), hidhem (bounce, bound, dash, Frisk, hop, jig, jounce, jump, launch, leap, lunge, peg, pounce, skip, spring, vault, Wade), çamarrokësi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزحة (banter, frolic, game, jest, jocularity, joke, prank, rag, raillery, romp, trick, waggery), ‏وثب سرحا, ‏تصرف بحماقة (carry on), ‏عربد (go to town, revel, roister, run wild), ‏طفرة (jump, leap, pounce, prance, rebound, start), ‏طفر (cavort, prance, skip, spring), ‏الكبر نبات, ‏رقص بمرح, ‏براعم الكبر الخضراء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

средиземноморски храст, скок (bounce, bound, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, lunge, prance, saltation, skip, spring), глупава шега, лудувам (cavort, lark, prance, romp, scamper about, tittup), лудория (antic, devilry, foolishness, gambade, gambado, lark, ploy, prank, rag, romp, shine), подскачам весело, подрипване, подрипвам (hop, jump, skip). (various references)

Chinese 

雀跃, 戲弄 (jest). (various references)

Czech

poskok (dogsbody, hop, skip, stooge, underling, understrapper). (various references)

Danish

kapers. (various references)

Dutch

bokkesprongen maken (frolic about). (various references)

Esperanto

kaprioli (frolic about). (various references)

Farsi 

جهش (Braid, Jump, Lunge, Mutation, Pounce, Spurt, Startle, Vault), جست وخیز (Bound, Curvet, Spring), ازروی شادی جست وخیزکردن , رقصیدن (Bale, Dance, Hoof, Hop, Lope, Tumble), شادی (Curvet, Gala, Glee, Joyance, Jubilation, Mirth). (various references)

French

gambader (cavort), câpre. (various references)

German

kaper (raider), Luftsprung, Kapriole. (various references)

Greek 

κάππαρη. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקפץ (jump, leap, prance), לקרטע (fidget, leap), לרקו�" (dance, foot, leap, prance), לרק�" (dance, hop, leap), לרצ�" (jump, leap, lurk, skip), תעלול (antic, caprice, hoax, machination, mischief, practical joke, prank, quip, rag, trick, whim). (various references)

Hungarian

fickándozás (cavorting, flounce, skip). (various references)

Indonesian

meloncat-loncat, bercanda (act playfully, be capricious, tease). (various references)

Italian

cappero. (various references)

Manx

keimraght, corlheimmey (capering), caprys. (various references)

Pig Latin

apercay

Portuguese

alcaparra. (various references)

Romanian

caperã, zburda (Frisk, frolic, gambol, romp), tumbã (cart wheel, somersault, tumble), se da de-a tumbã, salt (bounce, bound, dive, Frisk, gambol, header, hop, jump, leap, resilience, saltation, skip, spring, start, vault, vaulting), sãri (Bob, bounce, bound, break, dance, dap, frolic, gambol, hop, jump, lark, leap, leave out, lop, lope, Miss, rebound, skip, spirt, splash, spout, spring, spurt, start), poznã (damage, farce, Folly, foolishness, freak, merry prank, mischief, practical trick, prank, roguery), face prostii. (various references)

Russian 

прыжок (bounce, bound, capriole, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, lunge, prank, skip, spring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skok (bounce, bound, curvet, hop, jump, leap, plunge, rally, rise, skip, spring, upturn), praviti ludorije (skylark), ludorija (antic, escapade, foolery), ludirati se (fool about, romp, trifle), kapar. (various references)

Spanish

cabriola (antic, cabriole, chevrette, prance, skip), alcaparra. (various references)

Swedish

glädjesprång (gambol, leap for joy). (various references)

Thai

การกระโ�"�"อย่างสนุกสนาน, กระโ�"�"ไปรอบๆ อย่างสนุกสนาน. (various references)

Turkish

suç (blame, crime, criminality, culpability, delict, delinquency, error, fault, felony, guilt, irregularity, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, rap, sin, transgression, wrong), sıçrama (bounce, bouncing, bound, capriole, gambol, hop, jump, jumping, leap, rush, saltation, skip, skipping, splash, spring, springing, start, take off, vault, vaulting), oynayıp sıçramak, muziplik etmek, muziplik (Dido, fooling, frolic, hoax, joke, lark, prank, rag, teasing, trick), kanunsuz davranış, hoplamak (cavort, gambol, hop, jig, jump, leap, prance), hoplama (gambol, jump, jumping, saltation), geberotu, aptalca davranmak (act the fool, fart around, goof, goof around, make an ass of oneself, tomfool). (various references)

Ukranian 

стрибок (bounce, bound, curvet, dive, gambade, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, saltation, skip, souse, spirt, spring, spurt), стрибати (bounce, bound, cavort, dance, gambol, hop, jump, leap, lope, skip, spring, vault), утнути шутку, скакати (bound, cavort, gambol, lope), витівка (contrivance, device, devilment, gambade, gambado, lark, prank, sport), пустувати (fool about, footle, piddle, roil, rollick, skylark). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nhảy cỡn (frisk), h� nh động kỳ cục. (various references)

Welsh

rhygyngu (amble, mince), prancio (prance). (various references)

CAPPARIS SPINOSA, Capparis spinosa Linnaeus. (various references)

capriolare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "caper": capercaillie, capercaillies, capercailzie, capercailzies, capered, caperer, caperers, capering, capers. (additional references)

Words ending with "caper": escaper, landscaper, outcaper. (additional references)

Words containing "caper": escapers, landscapers, outcapered, outcapering, outcapers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Caper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cadpr, caer, Cafer, Cager, Caker, Calper, camer, Caparn, capat, capax, capea, capee, capek, capeo, caperd, capere, capet, capex, capi, Capie, capir, capker, Capler, Capoeira, cappe, cappel, cappen, Capree, carerr, carpere, caspe, cepa, chaper, cizer, coper, cpr, craper, Cvpe, cyper, Kapar, kaper, kapper, maper. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crape, pacer, recap.

-1 letter: acre, aper, cape, care, carp, crap, pace, pare, pear, race, rape, reap.

-2 letters: ace, ape, arc, are, cap, car, cep, ear, era, pac, par, pea, pec, per, rap, rec, rep.

-3 letters: ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re.

+1 letter: apercu, camper, capers, capper, carped, carpel, carper, carpet, craped, crapes, eparch, escarp, pacers, packer, parcel, parsec, placer, prance, preach, preact, recaps, redcap, repack, scrape, secpar, spacer.

+2 letters: apercus, caliper, campers, campier, capered, caperer, cappers, caprice, caprine, capture, carpale, carpels, carpers, carpets, champer, chapter, cheaper, clamper, clapper, clasper, compare, cramped, crapped, crapper, crappie, eparchs, eparchy, epicarp, escaper, escarps, exocarp, packers, parcels, parched, parches, paretic, parsecs, patcher, peacher, peccary, peracid, percale, picrate, placers, plectra, poacher, pranced, prancer, prances, preachy, preacts, precast, precava, preface, prelacy, prepack, prerace, reclasp, redcaps, repacks, repatch, replace, replica, respace, scalper, scamper, scarped, scarper, scauper, scraped, scraper, scrapes, scrapie, secpars, spacers, spacier, spectra, upreach.

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