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cap noun- a bullet; a shot US, 1925
- But before he got within ten feet of the door / I dropped him with a cap from my Colt .44. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 42, 1976
- There was no doubt in everyone’s mind that he would let off a couple of caps in the next fucker[.] — Dean Cavanagh, Mile High Meltdown (Disco Biscuits), p. 211, 1996
- a capsule of drugs US, 1929
- Local street sales of narcotics are concentrated on Pennsylvania Avenue in the Negro district, where indivdiual caps of heroin, morphine and reefers are available cheap. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 271, 1951
- Angel watched him begin preparations again, and didn’t move until all six caps were in the spoon, ready to be cooked. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 7, 1952
- Lots of jive and goofballs, maybe a couple caps of Horse. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 56, 1952
- The H caps cost three dollars each and you need at least three a day to get by. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 43, 1953
- Ginny’s got some caps. A hell of a lot of them. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 44, 1953
- M-a-a-n, I’m drug by that son of a bitch MacDoud with all his routines about how he ain’t got enough money for one cap[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 29, 1958
- Why don’t you bust a cap with me? It’s choice. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 14–15, 1960
- Red dumped out the contents of the bottle: a ball of cotton wool and a generous handful of capsules containing white powder, which he proceeded to line up like a row of soldiers. “Ten caps, baby!” — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 243, 1961
- I was discovering why heroin caps are so often called “courage pills.” — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 149, 1963
- I had never seen horse in bags before, and it seemed like a whole lot. All I’d ever seen was caps; that’s what eveyrbody was snorting back then. They were buying dollar caps. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 109, 1965
- We bought one cap and we split it, y’know. It was a giant cap, it was supposed to be five hundred grams, micrograms or something. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 172, 1968
- Late in the evening we cut into Hugh and picked up two more caps. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 85, 1980
- He fixed two rum-and-Cokes then, emptying a street-lude cap into Iris’s–eighty milligrams of Valium to take off her edge–and brought their drinks out to the living room. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 188, 1985
- But now, word! Hey, I be selling thirty-forty caps in a few minutes. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 57, 1989
- a psychoactive mushroom US
Conventionally the domed upper part of a mushroom; possibly an abbreviation of “liberty cap,” the name given to psilocybin mushrooms. - I took three, she ate the other twenty-two caps[.] — Eminem (Marshall Mathers), My Fault, 1999
- the amount of marijuana that will fit into the plastic cap of a tube of lip gloss US
- — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 29, 1989
- crack cocaine UK, 1998
Sometimes in the plural. - — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
- used as a term of address for someone whose actions are provoking physical violence US
Hawaiian youth usage; an abbreviated form of “capillary.” - — Douglas Simonson, Pidgin to da Max Hana Hou, 1982
- captain US, 1759
- The cap got all pissed off and had another shit fit, and we didn’t get going again until after daybreak. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 22, 1990
- a capital letter UK, 1937
Originally used by printers, then publishers and authors. - Small caps X and O, by the way, are usually made to the same height as the lower case x and o. — www.microsoft.com/typography/glossary, 2003
- a recapped tyre US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 27, 1971
- the penis FIJI
- You should have seen his cap. Covered in VD. — Jan Tent, 1993
- in casino gambling, a chip of one denomination on top of a stack of chips of another denomination US
- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 35, 1991
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