cap up

present singular third person caps up · participle present capping up · participle past capped up · past capped up

1. slangtransitiveTo divide (a drug) into capsules.

   Eventually we got it all capped up, one thousand doses just like Rob had said. […] I was going to become a three-drug connection to all my friends, psychedelics, hash and pot.

   2006, Dean McCormick, Dead End Street, page 62

2. UKmediaTo modify (the initial letter of a word) to be a capital letter.

   Do not cap up "oblast" or "province" in place names.

   3 more examples

   Secretaries of State: Cap up titles, as in Home Secretary David Blunkett and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

   2004, Tony Harcup, Journalism: Principles and Practice, SAGE Publications, Style Guide for Journalists, page 137

   Capping up: the general presumption is against using caps. Their use should be to denote something that is unique. The Pill immediately spells the contraceptive pill and the Forces indicates that we are talking about Britain's military and not the forces of light.

   2010, Simon Heffer, “The Daily Telegraph Style Guide”, in The Telegraph

   Cap up the first letter of the first word. Then, use lower case e.g.: "View and comment on planning applications" not "View And Comment On Planning Applications"

   2018 August 28, “Presenting Content”, in Central Bedfordshire Council