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plural capers
A playful leap or jump. examples
A jump while dancing. examples
A prank or practical joke. examples
(usually in the plural) Playful behaviour. examples
(figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime. quotations examples
His caper had failed to find a comic resolution. Instead, there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious. Or had this bleakness underlain the caper from the start?
2022, Jennifer Egan, “i, the Protagonist”, in The Candy House
third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered
To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner. quotations examples
He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury’s hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
To jump as part of a dance. examples
To engage in playful behaviour. examples
A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer. examples
The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten. examples
A plant of the genus Capparis. examples
(Scotland) The capercaillie. examples