unable to operate or continue: The washing machine is suddenly kaput.
Idioms for kaput
go kaput, Slang. to cease functioning; break down: The old car finally went kaput.
Origin of kaput
First recorded in 1890–95; from German: originally, “trickless” (in game of piquet), from French (être) capot “(to be) without tricks,” i.e., make zero score
Words nearby kaput
kapparah, Kapteyn, Kapuas, kapuka, Kapuskasing, kaput, Kara, karabiner, Karachai, Karachai-Cherkess Republic, Karachi
dead, destroyed, done for, down the drain, finished, out of business, burned out, cooked, down and out, down for the count, down the tubes, floored, had it, nonfunctioning, on the skids, out of circulation, sunk, totaled, washed up, wiped out