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caper
noun- a criminal undertaking, especially a swindle or theft US, 1925
- It always seems that way when a guy’s going on a caper. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 79, 1954
- By the time Oscar had been functioning for a year, the Drake caper had assumed such proportions that scores of donators, after shelling out their own money, were taken on as salesmen. — San Francisco Examiner, American Weekly, p. 17, 24 May 1959
- He was always and forever cooking up deals, figuring the angles, plotting a caper, with a mournful, long-faced and unhappy expression as though he knew someone would catch him. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 355, 1961
- The St. Louis jewelry caper was a major operation, but I had the finest possible team. — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 63, 1970
- Meanwhile, I’ve got some capers I want to pull with that Corpse. — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 234, 1971
- I was going to tell you about one other caper. — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 225, 1972
- I’m surprised you weren’t in on that toilet caper. — Body Heat, 1980
- They planned a caper in Washington D.C. and spent much time rushing back and forth between the two cities. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 57, 1980
- No more chickenshit two- and three-grand capers that cost two or three years. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 85, 1981
- Finally, someone comes up with the idea, wait a minute, while we were planning this caper, all we did was sit around and tell fucking jokes. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- that which is going on; bussiness; an undertaking AUSTRALIA
- What’s the caper? What’s Tuttle say? — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 177, 1954
- “Blimey isn’t this a ridiculous caper in this day and age of auto-mation,” dipper Dinger. — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin’, p. 20, 1965
- Next thing, I’ll invite you home to my place. That’s the caper, isn’t it? — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 109, 1965
- Snowy now: he was a vicious sort of kid, pulled off frog’s legs for fun, tied tin cans with bangers in them to cats’ tails–that sort of caper. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 94, 1969
- Yeah, an’ I’ll kill th’ shits if they try this caper on me when I grow up. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 39, 1982
- You done much of this martial arts caper have you? — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 154, 1992
- the time devoted to pleasure; a hedonistic lifestyle UK Probably from the conventional sense (a dance).
- I’m going to be a better man. I’ll sack [give up] the caper–I’ll sack snorting the shite, anyway. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 197, 2001
- cocaine UK
Etymology uncertain; possibly rhyming slang: “cape of good hope,” for “dope.” - I’ve taken fucking massive packages of caper round in the boot, done up like a kid’s birthday present. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 49, 2001
- a costume worn for erotic effect UK
- She’s wearing the same caper as what she’s got on in the photie. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 131, 2002
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