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caper

/key-per/US // ˈkeɪ pər //UK // (ˈkeɪpə) //

掳掠,掳掠者,斗鸡场,掳人

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a playful leap or skip.
    • : a prank or trick; harebrained escapade.
    • : a frivolous, carefree episode or activity.
    • : Slang. a criminal or illegal act, as a burglary or robbery.

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Examples

  • Many capers are grab-and-go schemes that unfold quickly, aided by pollinating logistics.

  • Conroy chops raw flank steak from the pedigreed D’Artagnan, mixing it with capers, green peppercorns and a fermented hot sauce he makes himself.

  • Toss it with tomatoes, garlic, cayenne peppers, pasta, cheese, and lots of capers.

  • Pop open a jar of caper leaves—yes, off the same plant that gives us briney capers—and have a nibble.

  • During renormalization, complicated submicroscopic capers tend to just disappear.

  • His latest film is The Two Faces of January, an old-fashioned caper set in scenic Greece and Turkey.

  • I sought them out and mapped out what a true-to-life 21st-century caper would look like at the most powerful bank in capitalism.

  • The Muppets Most Wanted might be the best puppet-led musical mystery caper farce that Hollywood has ever produced.

  • David O. Russell's sexy caper, American Hustle, opens in a most unusual way.

  • Why would the Revolutionary Guards, known for running a tight ship, get involved in such a sloppy caper?

  • If you can induce them to take a step to the right hand, they generally indemnify themselves by cutting a caper to the left.

  • Tell me, Caper, what idea does even that rough sketch of Venice awake in your imaginative faculties, and all that?'

  • Caper's face wore a deeply thoughtful look, as he answered: 'I do see it; I do claim to read the lesson you would teach——'

  • Chandeliers constructed of egg-shells, where candles shone brightly, particularly struck Caper.

  • As soon as we were alone she began to laugh and caper like a lunatic, singing out, 'You are my rom, I'm your romi.'