kaput
/kəˈpʊt
/adjective [predicative] informal
Broken and useless; no longer working or effective: the water pump’s broken, kaput...
- Now, he told me, the ‘big way’ of thinking is finished, kaput.
- I was just about done, finished, kaput, when I saw the sign up ahead.
- Well, my conspiracy was pretty much dead, kaput, nada.
Origin
Late 19th century: from German kaputt, from French (être) capot '(be) without tricks in a card game'; compare with capot.
This word meaning ‘no longer working’ comes from German kaputt, from French (être) capot ‘(be) without tricks in the card game of piquet’.
Rhymes
- soda lake
- soda lime
- sodalite
- sodality
- sod all
- soda pop
- soda siphon
- soda water
- sodbuster
- sodden
- soddenly
- soddenness
- Soddy, Frederick
- sodger
- sodic
- sodium
- sodium bicarbonate
- sodium carbonate
- sodium chloride
- sodium cromoglycate
- sodium cyanide
- sodium hydroxide
- sodium lamp
- sodium lauryl sulphate
- sodium morrhuate