cut capers

verb

To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.

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Meanings

verbcut capers (third-person singular simple present cuts capers, present participle cutting capers, simple past and past participle cut capers)

present singular third person cuts capers · participle present cutting capers

  1. To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.

    I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.

    1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I
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