outcaper

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verb

To surpass in capering.

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Meanings

verboutcaper (third-person singular simple present outcapers, present participle outcapering, simple past and past participle outcapered)

present singular third person outcapers · participle present outcapering · participle past outcapered · past outcapered

  1. transitiveTo surpass in capering.

    The little fool Tries to outcaper his own shadow.

    1884, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Callirhöe and Fair Rosamund
    1 more example

    As he took his prolonged siesta, she would frisk about him, biting first one ear and then the other, till at last he would rise in magnificent menace and go chasing after her, his middle-aged dignity melting from him in the fun of the frolic, till his antics outcapered her own.

    1919, Katharine Lee Bates, Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road

Origin

From out- + caper.

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“outcaper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcaper. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outcaper,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcaper.

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