cut capers
English
Verb
cut capers
- To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.
- 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in Heart of Darkness:
- I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.
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Related terms
- caper-cutting, caper cutting
- cut a caper