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verb ˈkeɪpəˈkeɪpər no object, with adverbial of direction Skip or dance about in a lively or playful way. children were capering about the room Example sentencesExamples - Dark forms capered amidst the flames, pausing only to hack at the battered forms of those that had tried in vain to defend the fortress.
- Dirty boys capered like shadows at the edge of the performance, aping the musicians' gestures.
- It doesn't stop him later that evening from capering madly around the stage, all jack-in-a-box bouncing and extravagant semaphore gestures.
- Children capered around in awe of all the soldiers with weapons, and guests and dignitaries kept a respectful silence during the formalities.
- They hold the foreigners in contempt, calling them aliens and capering about in a pathetic attempt to feel superior.
- It was dark by then and a few drunken students were capering about.
- The gardener strolled off, his golden gown soon lost in the golden expanse of grass, accompanied by several small animals which capered at his feet, circled his head or hopped off and on his shoulders.
- They took over a fish and chip shop, where they mugged and capered while the locals waited long-sufferingly for their grub.
- The dogs alternately padded alongside Daman or capered with the boy.
- Sandra was now half way to the trunk when my mother hurled the screen door open and came capering up to us, grinning wildly.
- When the Mass was over Gnat was capering around the narthex, showing off her happy frilly purple coat.
- I see you have Lindo still capering along behind you everywhere you go.
- She would have joyously capered in the village streets that were nearby, yet she had never been there.
- He capered and cavorted growing louder by the moment, so that it was a fair bit before the French player's quiet protestations could be heard.
- ‘In the magical forest lived three fairies,’ I began, walking deeper into the woods while Tamela capered in circles around me.
- Whatever, it set the howler monkeys capering in their giddiest branches, and jabbering almost as much as Jack.
- The kids stand frozen and slack-jawed, mesmerized by the adults capering around in rented tutus.
- There was general merrymaking for a while as the Raiders capered about among the gold and jewels.
- Before you quite know what's happening, the burly Warburton has whipped off his shirt and is capering - hairy, barrel chest and all - after his mother.
- It's a cold, overcast morning, but there are about ten dogs capering across the beach off-leash.
Synonyms skip, dance, romp, jig, frisk, gambol, cavort, prance, frolic, leap, hop, jump, bound, spring rare curvet, rollick, capriole
noun ˈkeɪpəˈkeɪpər 1A playful skipping movement. she did a little caper or dance Example sentencesExamples - Rupert leaps into the crowd, has a caper around the room and still manages not to miss a beat.
- Frankie did a little caper around the back of the van, on all fours like a demented monkey.
- Sienna grabs onto Taranian's shoulder in a bout of joy, and does a caper around her friend, laughing in a barely sane manner.
Synonyms dance, skip, hop, leap, jump rare curvet, gambado, gambade 2informal An illicit or ridiculous activity or escapade. I'm too old for this kind of caper Example sentencesExamples - The 90 minute opener is a caper involving a thoroughbred racehorse, a bunch of knock-off porn videos (also featuring animals), a Greek kebab shop owner and, naturally, wads of cash.
- A guy comes up with a caper, he puts together a team, they plan, and then they pull off the heist.
- Their latest caper is a promise to abolish all university tuition fees - while Labour is taking the economically responsible course of putting the fees up!
- They spoil everything, from a night out at the pictures to a meticulously-planned caper, involving a rich Aunt and a rubber zombie mask.
- Unfortunately, far too many films contain wacky crime capers that lead into shenanigans which gives way to witty, edgy banter.
- Tim Gillin writes about the latest caper of Australia's ‘multicultural’ bureaucrats.
- Thankfully, some of them basically drift away by the end of the film so that we are left with a core group of determined thieves who embark on the caper at the film's climax.
- It was freakish to say the least, and even lost me a few readers in the process - but at the same time, this stunt saw the site rapidly acquiring a whole host of new readers who found the whole caper hilarious.
- Now he may face the full 10 years, plus punishment for the grave-robbing caper.
- He said the public need to distinguish between a one-off caper and persistent anti-social behaviour.
- Women wrestled then befriended adultresses, men abducted brides, light-hearted capers segued into murder.
- Anyway their latest caper is to offer to purchase LFA (Less Favoured Area) Sheep Quota from any producer willing to sell it.
- Initially, I'm slightly skeptical about the whole caper.
- The New York Times report cleverly tries to insinuate that the caper involved currency speculation, but the truth is more interesting.
- If he escapes, it will be a trick worthy of the swimming-pool caper.
- So even a film about the best-known caper of the past decade doesn't take the subject head-on.
- Their caper involves a nightlong journey of picking up cash all over town in a purloined bank van with Wayne and Henry posing as bank guards assigned to collect all this money.
- The election board and the local Council, with their haphazard and non-accountability attitude, should have stopped this caper when it was first seen years ago.
- Police have been brought in to help solve the riddle of who put bloodworms in swimming pools, as authorities conclude the caper may have been an inside job.
- The then-executive director of the New Hampshire Republican party and a consultant involved in the scheme are now doing time for their role in the caper.
Synonyms escapade, stunt, prank, trick, practical joke, antics, high jinks, mischief, game, sport, fun, jest, jesting, jape informal shenanigans, lark, skylarking British informal monkey tricks, monkey business North American informal dido - 2.1 A light-hearted, far-fetched film, especially about crime.
a cop caper about intergalactic drug dealers Example sentencesExamples - This fast paced caper is full of twist and turns, sharp cuts and a racy soundtrack.
- The 1947 film noir detective story, now available on DVD, has a lot more potential for interpretation than your average caper, and a look that stands the test of time.
- Sidney Lumet's Family Business wants to have its cake and eat it too - is it a crime caper, a genial comedy, or a relational drama?
- The artistry of the conman is given an enticing makeover by Sir Ridley Scott in Matchstick Men, an ingenious little crime caper which functions on many levels.
- Guy Ritchie updated the film by recasting the 1960s blaggers as escapees from a GQ photo-shoot and remoulding the caper to involve a shotgun and an ex-Wimbledon stopper.
- Rockwell, too, is no slouch in the cool stakes, having already teamed up with George Clooney for crime capers, Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
- There is a mastery at work that elevates it from yet another crime caper to something almost operatic in scope.
- No matter how hard you search major American media databases of the last couple of years for mention of the spy caper, you'll come up nearly empty.
- He will later this year be seen in a car-chase caper called V for Vendetta, a British ‘bonfire night’ action thriller by the makers of The Matrix.
- The script is a simple caper of thwarting the protagonist's attempts to complete a simple task.
- As he babysits the babes, he tries to mould them into prim and proper ladies in this fish-out-of-water caper as they in turn teach Roland the art of seduction.
- Just don't expect a ‘post-modern’ crime caper in the Quentin Tarantino vein.
- Cammell wrote the scripts for two other 1968 films The Touchables and Duffy, a crime caper starring three Jameses - Coburn, Mason and Fox.
- She began writing Cybill Disobedience 10 years ago after the cancellation of Moonlighting, the detective caper co-starring Bruce Willis.
- It's a terrific caper, beautifully acted by Nolte.
- This is the task facing Steven Soderbergh and co, as they bring you the sequel to their crime caper, Ocean's 12.
- A tissue paper thin comedy crime caper, it feels like a million movies I've seen before and not really enjoyed.
- It's a safe, unassuming, rather amusing little crime caper.
- Despite similarities with Ritchie's two acclaimed crime capers, Layer Cake is a very different kind of movie.
- Take five guys with no brains and a job that's too good to be true and you have the recipe for one of the funniest crime capers in recent years.
Phrases Make a playful skipping movement. he cut a little caper as he walked along the corridor Example sentencesExamples - Before we know it, the God-fearing Sabah has become a fiddlestick - sipping Chardonnay and cutting a caper across the parks of Toronto for trysts with her new lover.
- After a time, Fun came out of the hole, cut a caper in front of Sulkyface, and gave a peculiar shriek, which forced him to give a momentary smile in spite of himself.
- Darlene Enke and Jessica Hanel cut a caper in Threepenny Opera.
- Without another word, Tom flings himself on the old gentleman's neck; throws up his hat; cuts a caper; defies the waiting-maid; and refers her to the butcher.
- And the hag, insisting that she felt a child quick within her, begged Bourgeois to feel how the wee jester cut a caper in her belly.
- When he clowned people laughed dutifully, when he cut a caper they applauded reverentially.
- The poor little fellow could neither sing nor dance, and had not sufficient breath left to cut a caper or turn a back somersault.
- He, too, stopped to listen, and he even cut a caper or two in the hope of attracting attention.
- Dressed in white for her next entrance, in ACT III, she smokes a cigarette and laughs at Ariel, who cuts a caper, mincing air with someone's sword.
- This is your chance to practice cutting a caper.
Derivatives noun ˈkeɪpərəˈkeɪp(ə)rər Kingsley is not much of a caperer, and the few scenes of physical merriment seem strained. Example sentencesExamples - Hart's wooden boy, too, is unlikely to be a Disneyfied caperer - if early rehearsals are any guide, he is at least as much a somewhat unsettling holy fool as an escapee from the toy box.
- Many a time has Captain Katzenjammer, famed obese comic-strip caperer, deceived his frau by making a balloon facsimile of himself, painting his vapid likeness on it, stuffing it into bed.
- But from the moment the two little caperers cross the stage to stand at the edge of two small rectangles of light that have appeared on the floor, ‘Rhythm Plus’ is built around walking.
Origin Late 16th century: abbreviation of capriole. Two frisky animals are behind the word caper. It was adapted from capriole, a movement performed in riding in which the horse leaps from the ground and kicks out with its hind legs. Its origin was Italian capriola ‘leap’, based on Latin caper ‘goat’. Members of the Victorian underworld seem to have been the first to use the word in the sense ‘an illicit or ridiculous activity’. In an 1867 edition of the London Herald a policeman is quoted as saying: ‘He'll get five years penal for this little caper.’ Edible capers are something quite different—the word comes from Greek kapparis. See also cab
Rhymes draper, escaper, gaper, paper, scraper, shaper, taper, vapour (US vapor) noun ˈkeɪpəˈkeɪpər 1The cooked and pickled flower bud of a prickly southern European shrub, used to flavour food. Example sentencesExamples - For the tuna, in a medium bowl, combine the tuna, shallots, onion, capers, the Dijon mustard, and rice wine vinegar, and toss to coat.
- Foods associated with Aries are the pungent, spicy plants of Mars - onion, leek, garlic, cayenne, capers and mustard - plus, of course, the sacrificial Sunday roast lamb.
- Combine in a frying pan with the olive oil, garlic, fennel seeds, capers, sea salt and pepper, and gently stew for 10 to 15 minutes, without actually ‘frying’ or browning.
- Add the garlic, olives, capers, chopped basil and lemon zest.
- I stand for just a drizzle of olive oil across the top of the sandwich, or a light coating of the transcendent caper vinaigrette.
- Add tomatoes, olives, capers, and thyme; season with salt and white pepper to taste.
- Add garlic, capers and cayenne pepper and sauté for two minutes.
- Remove the potatoes from the oil and in a medium bowl, combine with the bacon, tomatoes, capers, parsley, tarragon, and cilantro.
- Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and add the garlic, chilli, capers and white wine; cook for 1 minute, stirring.
- There were no capers, no bacon and only three croutons (I should not have to, or be able to, count them).
- Mix the tomatoes with the parsley and olives, capers, olive oil, lemon juice and pepper.
- Make the stuffing by combining the garlic, parsley, coriander, lemon, capers, breadcrumbs and almonds.
- The thick fillet, sprawled on a banana leaf like a centrefold, was served sprinkled with the odd caper, like little khaki army helmets camouflaged under a limp coriander net.
- Place the artichokes, walnuts, cheese dice, anchovies, capers, olives and parsley in a bowl.
- In a large frying pan, combine the olive oil, diced salmon, lemon zest, capers, parsley, sea salt and pepper and cook gently until the salmon changes colour.
- In a large bowl, lightly mix the olive oil, garlic, chilli, capers, lemon juice, lemon zest, sea salt and pepper.
- Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a low heat, and add the garlic, capers, chilli or cayenne and anchovy fillets.
- They go well with the strong Mediterranean flavours of anchovy, garlic, capers, extra virgin olive oil, rosemary and oregano, and Greek cheeses such as feta and halloumi.
- When fully incorporated, add the capers, parsley, the vinegars and the water.
- I look at a Puttanesca recipe, and I think to myself ‘olive oil, Chili pepper flakes, anchovies, Tomatoes, capers, kalamata olives’.
2The shrub from which capers are taken. Capparis spinosa, family Capparidaceae Example sentencesExamples - They lay their eggs on plants in the caper family, like the wild passion fruit bush.
- Avinoam Danin, a botanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem claims he has identified pollen from the tumbleweed Gundelia tournefortii and a bean caper on the shroud.
- A caper is a biennial spiny shrub that bears a fleshy rounded leaves and big white/pink flowers
Origin Late Middle English: from French câpres or Latin capparis, from Greek kapparis; later interpreted as plural, hence the loss of the final -s in the 16th century. verbˈkeɪpərˈkāpər no object, with adverbial of direction Skip or dance about in a lively or playful way. children were capering about the room Example sentencesExamples - When the Mass was over Gnat was capering around the narthex, showing off her happy frilly purple coat.
- They hold the foreigners in contempt, calling them aliens and capering about in a pathetic attempt to feel superior.
- He capered and cavorted growing louder by the moment, so that it was a fair bit before the French player's quiet protestations could be heard.
- She would have joyously capered in the village streets that were nearby, yet she had never been there.
- I see you have Lindo still capering along behind you everywhere you go.
- Dark forms capered amidst the flames, pausing only to hack at the battered forms of those that had tried in vain to defend the fortress.
- There was general merrymaking for a while as the Raiders capered about among the gold and jewels.
- ‘In the magical forest lived three fairies,’ I began, walking deeper into the woods while Tamela capered in circles around me.
- Dirty boys capered like shadows at the edge of the performance, aping the musicians' gestures.
- It's a cold, overcast morning, but there are about ten dogs capering across the beach off-leash.
- The dogs alternately padded alongside Daman or capered with the boy.
- It was dark by then and a few drunken students were capering about.
- Children capered around in awe of all the soldiers with weapons, and guests and dignitaries kept a respectful silence during the formalities.
- The gardener strolled off, his golden gown soon lost in the golden expanse of grass, accompanied by several small animals which capered at his feet, circled his head or hopped off and on his shoulders.
- They took over a fish and chip shop, where they mugged and capered while the locals waited long-sufferingly for their grub.
- Before you quite know what's happening, the burly Warburton has whipped off his shirt and is capering - hairy, barrel chest and all - after his mother.
- It doesn't stop him later that evening from capering madly around the stage, all jack-in-a-box bouncing and extravagant semaphore gestures.
- Sandra was now half way to the trunk when my mother hurled the screen door open and came capering up to us, grinning wildly.
- The kids stand frozen and slack-jawed, mesmerized by the adults capering around in rented tutus.
- Whatever, it set the howler monkeys capering in their giddiest branches, and jabbering almost as much as Jack.
Synonyms skip, dance, romp, jig, frisk, gambol, cavort, prance, frolic, leap, hop, jump, bound, spring
nounˈkeɪpərˈkāpər 1A playful skipping movement. Example sentencesExamples - Frankie did a little caper around the back of the van, on all fours like a demented monkey.
- Rupert leaps into the crowd, has a caper around the room and still manages not to miss a beat.
- Sienna grabs onto Taranian's shoulder in a bout of joy, and does a caper around her friend, laughing in a barely sane manner.
Synonyms dance, skip, hop, leap, jump 2informal An activity or escapade, typically one that is illicit or ridiculous. Example sentencesExamples - Now he may face the full 10 years, plus punishment for the grave-robbing caper.
- The then-executive director of the New Hampshire Republican party and a consultant involved in the scheme are now doing time for their role in the caper.
- It was freakish to say the least, and even lost me a few readers in the process - but at the same time, this stunt saw the site rapidly acquiring a whole host of new readers who found the whole caper hilarious.
- Unfortunately, far too many films contain wacky crime capers that lead into shenanigans which gives way to witty, edgy banter.
- Women wrestled then befriended adultresses, men abducted brides, light-hearted capers segued into murder.
- He said the public need to distinguish between a one-off caper and persistent anti-social behaviour.
- So even a film about the best-known caper of the past decade doesn't take the subject head-on.
- Their caper involves a nightlong journey of picking up cash all over town in a purloined bank van with Wayne and Henry posing as bank guards assigned to collect all this money.
- Thankfully, some of them basically drift away by the end of the film so that we are left with a core group of determined thieves who embark on the caper at the film's climax.
- A guy comes up with a caper, he puts together a team, they plan, and then they pull off the heist.
- The New York Times report cleverly tries to insinuate that the caper involved currency speculation, but the truth is more interesting.
- The 90 minute opener is a caper involving a thoroughbred racehorse, a bunch of knock-off porn videos (also featuring animals), a Greek kebab shop owner and, naturally, wads of cash.
- The election board and the local Council, with their haphazard and non-accountability attitude, should have stopped this caper when it was first seen years ago.
- Their latest caper is a promise to abolish all university tuition fees - while Labour is taking the economically responsible course of putting the fees up!
- They spoil everything, from a night out at the pictures to a meticulously-planned caper, involving a rich Aunt and a rubber zombie mask.
- Police have been brought in to help solve the riddle of who put bloodworms in swimming pools, as authorities conclude the caper may have been an inside job.
- Anyway their latest caper is to offer to purchase LFA (Less Favoured Area) Sheep Quota from any producer willing to sell it.
- Initially, I'm slightly skeptical about the whole caper.
- Tim Gillin writes about the latest caper of Australia's ‘multicultural’ bureaucrats.
- If he escapes, it will be a trick worthy of the swimming-pool caper.
Synonyms escapade, stunt, prank, trick, practical joke, antics, high jinks, mischief, game, sport, fun, jest, jesting, jape - 2.1 An amusing or far-fetched story, especially one presented on film or stage.
a cop caper about intergalactic drug dealers Example sentencesExamples - As he babysits the babes, he tries to mould them into prim and proper ladies in this fish-out-of-water caper as they in turn teach Roland the art of seduction.
- Just don't expect a ‘post-modern’ crime caper in the Quentin Tarantino vein.
- This fast paced caper is full of twist and turns, sharp cuts and a racy soundtrack.
- Sidney Lumet's Family Business wants to have its cake and eat it too - is it a crime caper, a genial comedy, or a relational drama?
- Guy Ritchie updated the film by recasting the 1960s blaggers as escapees from a GQ photo-shoot and remoulding the caper to involve a shotgun and an ex-Wimbledon stopper.
- No matter how hard you search major American media databases of the last couple of years for mention of the spy caper, you'll come up nearly empty.
- Rockwell, too, is no slouch in the cool stakes, having already teamed up with George Clooney for crime capers, Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
- A tissue paper thin comedy crime caper, it feels like a million movies I've seen before and not really enjoyed.
- It's a terrific caper, beautifully acted by Nolte.
- Take five guys with no brains and a job that's too good to be true and you have the recipe for one of the funniest crime capers in recent years.
- The artistry of the conman is given an enticing makeover by Sir Ridley Scott in Matchstick Men, an ingenious little crime caper which functions on many levels.
- This is the task facing Steven Soderbergh and co, as they bring you the sequel to their crime caper, Ocean's 12.
- There is a mastery at work that elevates it from yet another crime caper to something almost operatic in scope.
- She began writing Cybill Disobedience 10 years ago after the cancellation of Moonlighting, the detective caper co-starring Bruce Willis.
- He will later this year be seen in a car-chase caper called V for Vendetta, a British ‘bonfire night’ action thriller by the makers of The Matrix.
- Despite similarities with Ritchie's two acclaimed crime capers, Layer Cake is a very different kind of movie.
- It's a safe, unassuming, rather amusing little crime caper.
- The script is a simple caper of thwarting the protagonist's attempts to complete a simple task.
- The 1947 film noir detective story, now available on DVD, has a lot more potential for interpretation than your average caper, and a look that stands the test of time.
- Cammell wrote the scripts for two other 1968 films The Touchables and Duffy, a crime caper starring three Jameses - Coburn, Mason and Fox.
Phrases Make a playful skipping movement. Example sentencesExamples - Without another word, Tom flings himself on the old gentleman's neck; throws up his hat; cuts a caper; defies the waiting-maid; and refers her to the butcher.
- Dressed in white for her next entrance, in ACT III, she smokes a cigarette and laughs at Ariel, who cuts a caper, mincing air with someone's sword.
- Darlene Enke and Jessica Hanel cut a caper in Threepenny Opera.
- The poor little fellow could neither sing nor dance, and had not sufficient breath left to cut a caper or turn a back somersault.
- And the hag, insisting that she felt a child quick within her, begged Bourgeois to feel how the wee jester cut a caper in her belly.
- After a time, Fun came out of the hole, cut a caper in front of Sulkyface, and gave a peculiar shriek, which forced him to give a momentary smile in spite of himself.
- This is your chance to practice cutting a caper.
- Before we know it, the God-fearing Sabah has become a fiddlestick - sipping Chardonnay and cutting a caper across the parks of Toronto for trysts with her new lover.
- He, too, stopped to listen, and he even cut a caper or two in the hope of attracting attention.
- When he clowned people laughed dutifully, when he cut a caper they applauded reverentially.
Origin Late 16th century: abbreviation of capriole. nounˈkāpərˈkeɪpər 1The cooked and pickled flower bud of a prickly southern European shrub, used to flavor food. Example sentencesExamples - Add garlic, capers and cayenne pepper and sauté for two minutes.
- Add tomatoes, olives, capers, and thyme; season with salt and white pepper to taste.
- Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and add the garlic, chilli, capers and white wine; cook for 1 minute, stirring.
- In a large frying pan, combine the olive oil, diced salmon, lemon zest, capers, parsley, sea salt and pepper and cook gently until the salmon changes colour.
- I stand for just a drizzle of olive oil across the top of the sandwich, or a light coating of the transcendent caper vinaigrette.
- The thick fillet, sprawled on a banana leaf like a centrefold, was served sprinkled with the odd caper, like little khaki army helmets camouflaged under a limp coriander net.
- In a large bowl, lightly mix the olive oil, garlic, chilli, capers, lemon juice, lemon zest, sea salt and pepper.
- Foods associated with Aries are the pungent, spicy plants of Mars - onion, leek, garlic, cayenne, capers and mustard - plus, of course, the sacrificial Sunday roast lamb.
- Mix the tomatoes with the parsley and olives, capers, olive oil, lemon juice and pepper.
- When fully incorporated, add the capers, parsley, the vinegars and the water.
- For the tuna, in a medium bowl, combine the tuna, shallots, onion, capers, the Dijon mustard, and rice wine vinegar, and toss to coat.
- They go well with the strong Mediterranean flavours of anchovy, garlic, capers, extra virgin olive oil, rosemary and oregano, and Greek cheeses such as feta and halloumi.
- I look at a Puttanesca recipe, and I think to myself ‘olive oil, Chili pepper flakes, anchovies, Tomatoes, capers, kalamata olives’.
- Combine in a frying pan with the olive oil, garlic, fennel seeds, capers, sea salt and pepper, and gently stew for 10 to 15 minutes, without actually ‘frying’ or browning.
- Make the stuffing by combining the garlic, parsley, coriander, lemon, capers, breadcrumbs and almonds.
- Remove the potatoes from the oil and in a medium bowl, combine with the bacon, tomatoes, capers, parsley, tarragon, and cilantro.
- Place the artichokes, walnuts, cheese dice, anchovies, capers, olives and parsley in a bowl.
- There were no capers, no bacon and only three croutons (I should not have to, or be able to, count them).
- Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a low heat, and add the garlic, capers, chilli or cayenne and anchovy fillets.
- Add the garlic, olives, capers, chopped basil and lemon zest.
2The shrub from which capers are taken. Capparis spinosa, family Capparidaceae Example sentencesExamples - They lay their eggs on plants in the caper family, like the wild passion fruit bush.
- A caper is a biennial spiny shrub that bears a fleshy rounded leaves and big white/pink flowers
- Avinoam Danin, a botanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem claims he has identified pollen from the tumbleweed Gundelia tournefortii and a bean caper on the shroud.
Origin Late Middle English: from French câpres or Latin capparis, from Greek kapparis; later interpreted as plural, hence the loss of the final -s in the 16th century. |