cut capers

English

Verb

cut capers (third-person singular simple present cuts capers, present participle cutting capers, simple past and past participle cut capers)

1. To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.

Related terms

• caper-cutting, caper cutting
• cut a caper