Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that caps or makes caps.
- n. Informal Something that surpasses or completes what has gone before; a finishing touch or finale.
- n. Slang One who acts as a decoy, as in a confidence game.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One whose business is the making or selling of caps.
- n. A tool for fitting percussion-caps to shells.
- n. A Scotch form of cupper, a cupbearer. See
cap and cupper. - To seize; lay hold of violently: specifically, to seize (a vessel) as a prize.
- n. A spider.
- n. A stool-pigeon in a gambling-house, or a person employed at auctions to raise bids deceptively.
- n. The workman who takes the filled molds away from a brick-machine.
Wiktionary
- n. One that caps.
- n. A device or person that applies caps, as to bullets or bottles.
- n. A person that makes or sells caps.
- n. A finale.
- n. US, slang, dated A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One whose business is to make or sell caps.
- n. Slang, U. S. A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers.
- n. An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.
Etymologies
- cap + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The capper is a 7-yard pass to Wes Welker, putting New England up early, and planting that seed of doubt into the minds of Broncos fans.”
The Guardian: New England Patriots 45 Denver Broncos 10 - as it happened!
“The capper is a deposition that was given by the cameraman for the footage some years ago.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: A Film Unfinished
“The capper is a call that Jimmy says he made to Johnny at home that night because “Greenberg was a meatpacker who was treating him like a piece of dirt.””
“And the capper is the whole "never admit fault" attitude that seems to permeate the Blogger/Google organization.”
“When they report that over 7 million unique users log in to HH every month, that to me is still questionable but also more significant -- and the capper is the ultimate commercial quantification, that they report unaudited over $30M in revenue last year.”
“Yes; what the gamblers call a capper, or roper-in.”
“They were, respectively, "Doc" Curfoot -- suave haunter of Peacock Alley and gentleman "capper" -- whom Brandes introduced as the celebrated specialist, Doctor Elbert Curfoot -- and Captain Harman”
“The capper was a series of stories about his relationship with a former Penthouse Pet who now works at a St. Louis bartender.”
“The capper might be a hay-smoked length of bone-in fish on a tumble of pan-crisped okra and tomato, an ode to the new Gulf Coast.”
“The capper was a three-run homer by Young that broke open the game and gave the Pirates an 8-3 advantage.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘capper’.
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Daily Show and Colbert Musings
They put the fake in fake news, and they're still more real than the real news. Go figure!
catastrofuck, gee whiz, looting, correspondent, precisely, reprisal, numbnuts, callous, terrestrial, capper, report, sociopath and 114 more...
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Vocabulary
My ever expanding vocabulary...
feuterer, abattoir, kibosh, sequin, shiftless, scrimshanker, sic, moniker, dogsbody, contranym, autoantonym, exhortation and 306 more...
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Gambling and Gaming
baize, tesserarian, ambidexter, blue chip, one-armed bandit, monte-bank, dicing-house, croupier, hazard, hazardry, gord, junket and 68 more...
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