caper

caper

1. A trick, prank, or other similarly mischievous action. Come on, we'll definitely get in trouble if we're caught in another caper.
2. An illegal scheme or plot. What caper did you two fools get arrested for this time?

cut capers

To play and run around in a jubilant manner. The weather is so nice that the kids have been cutting capers in the back yard all morning.
See also: caper, cut
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cut capers

Also, cut a caper. Frolic or romp, as in The children cut capers in the pile of raked leaves. The noun caper comes from the Latin for "goat," and the allusion is to act in the manner of a young goat clumsily frolicking about. The expression was first recorded in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1:3): "Faith, I can cut a caper."
See also: caper, cut
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

caper

(ˈkepɚ)
1. n. any stunt or event; a trick or a scam. That little caper the kids did with the statue from the town square was a dandy.
2. n. a criminal job: theft, kidnapping, blackmail, etc. (Underworld.) The black and whites pulled up right in the middle of the caper.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • put (something) over on (one)
  • put over on
  • put something over on
  • play a joke (on one)
  • play a joke on
  • a practical joke
  • be like putty in someone's hands
  • be putty in (one's) hands
  • putty
  • get wind of (something)
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He was complaining that, although he followed a certain recipe to the letter, he was unable to taste the capers in the finished dish.
Annie's kitchen
Phillip Caper, MD, of Dartmouth Medical School describes this lack of professional accountability as an "epidemic timidity" characteristic of doctors and hospitals who "resist taking systematic responsibility for the social implications of their clinical decisions." [2] Physicians do what they feel comfortable with because of their training and experience.
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Edgar Allan Caper, KFC Guam's marketing director, bagged the coveted Agora for Outstanding Achievement in Overseas Marketing during the 39th Agora Awards held last month.
Ex-dishwasher bags top Agora Award
Joyce Burnham, via email A That looks like the caper spurge - it's a euphorbia whose seeds resemble capers but are, like the rest of the plant, poisonous.
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