cap
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- IPA: /kæp/
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- Rhymes: -æp
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cap (plural caps)
- A close-fitting head covering either without a brim or with a peak.
- A special head covering to indicate rank, occupation etc.
- An academic mortarboard
- A protective cover or seal
- A crown for covering a tooth
- The summit of a mountain etc.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling
- The top part of a mushroom
- (cricket) The cap worn by players as protection from the sun; the cap awarded to a player when first selected to play for a side
- A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
- Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
- He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
- (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
- 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon
- Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?
- 2001: Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon
- (soccer) An international appearance
- Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
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to cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped) (transitive)
- To cover or seal with a cap
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
- To lie over or on top of something
- To surpass or outdo
- To set an upper limit on something
- (cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
- (slang) To shoot someone
- If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
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From capitalization, by shortening
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cap (plural caps)
- (finance) Capitalization.
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From capital, by shortening
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cap (plural caps)
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to cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)
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cap m. (plural caps)
[edit] Etymology 2
From caber (q.v.).
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cap
- Third-person singular present of caber.
[edit] Etymology 3
See Etymology 1 above; cf. French personne (which can mean either “person” or “nobody”).
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cap
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cap m. (plural caps)
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cap
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From Latin caput.
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- IPA: [kap]
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cap m. (plural caps)
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- IPA: /kap/
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cap m. (plural capy, genitive capa)declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural
- a male goat