Word Finder - caper

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A playful leap or jump.

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A jump while dancing.

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A prank or practical joke.

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(usually in plural) Playful behaviour.

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(figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.

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To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.

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To jump as part of a dance.

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To engage in playful behaviour.

I read an English caper about that happening one time.

This caper hasn't been much of a challenge.

Too bad you forgot to bring the photo or we'd have this caper locked up.

Of course, Dave was too suave and cool for all that caper.

The Ref - A Christmas Eve caper starring Dennis Leary, Kevin Sapcey and Judy Davis.

Dean was hoping to at least finish his salsa before having to stop Fred from dashing up the mountain to single-handedly solve the caper.

I just said I wasn't sharing anything with that Boston shrew, I didn't say I was quitting the caper.

Dean knew Fred was chomping at the bit to dig into this caper, as he called it, but just to flip his switch a bit, Dean started the conversation with the old man's love life.

That means it's up to you and me to solve this caper.

In the Middle Ages caper infusions were considered aphrodisiac and a mild tonic.

Just involves a crazy caper with a wizard robe and a bit of Mors madness.

This is an entertaining sci-fi caper about cloning in a heartless future world.

There's a great video showing how this whole caper was pulled off on Youtube.

Occasionally they defy audience patience too, but on the whole this is an enjoyable caper from first-time director Scott Roberts.

The " White " version makes the film look like little more than a moderately violent crime caper.

Speaking of Bond, this film does seem to smell a little of a spy caper.

Caper This is the unopened flower bud of a plant which grows wild among the rocks of Greece an Northern Africa.

A few of the mouths of the smaller canals are kept open so as to receive a limited supply of water at the rise of the river in May, which then distributes itself over the lower lying lands in the interior, almost without labour on the part of the cultivators, giving birth in such localities to the most abundant crops, but by far the larger portion of the region between the rivers is at present an arid howling wilderness es dotted with tels or ruin-heaps, strewn in the most part with broken pottery, the evidence of former habitation, and bearing nothing but the camel-thorn, the wild caper, the colocynth-apple, wormwood and other weeds of the desert.

Curving her arms, Natasha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes.

Here's a shot at a real life caper.

Once the details to that "caper," as Fred O'Connor called it, were settled, life and business at Bird Song had proceeded peacefully.

Caper was the author of two works - De Lingua Latina and De Dubiis Generibus.

Here the more common European plants and trees give place to the wild olive, the caper bush, the aloe, the cactus, the evergreen oak, the orange, the lemon, the palm and other productions of a tropical climate.

Although they were noble, they liked tae caper jist like ony ither bairns.

He also could boast of having recovered Ammianus Marcellinus, Nonius Marcellus, Probus, Flavius Caper and Eutyches.