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- verb Present participle of
caper . - noun The motion of one who
capers .
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Examples
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Mick joined him in capering, as Jim swung himself into the saddle.
A Little Bush Maid 1910
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But Kristen Connolly makes no impression as Cordelia and the great Bill Irwin seems utterly lost as the Fool, capering about in an ugly yellow costume and desperately mugging and vamping and trying to make sense of it all.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Sam Waterston's "King Lear" Disappoints At Public Michael Giltz 2011
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Set against a playground of capering children with no sense of religious affiliation at all, a young western re-settlement worker sounded wise beyond his years, saying "It will take generations before people are able to accommodate to each other and come to a new understanding."
David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011
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Set against a playground of capering children with no sense of religious affiliation at all, a young western re-settlement worker sounded wise beyond his years, saying "It will take generations before people are able to accommodate to each other and come to a new understanding."
David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011
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Much imaginative capering ensues as our stroppy young heroine comes of age through the time-honoured route of folly, emergency driving lessons and sexual awakening at the hands of Robert Sheehan the gobby Irish one from Misfits, who plays snoggable townie borrower Spiller as a tearaway in a red biker jacket.
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With Cooper having spent much of his time in France over the last several years, away from his native Los Angeles, The Marbled Swarm seems explicitly continental, with touches of the Oulipo Group's literary capering and a tasteful amount of cult-Euro name drops, from Isabelle Adjani to Alain Robb-Grillet.
Brian Joseph Davis: A Literary Outlaw in Paris: Interview With Dennis Cooper Brian Joseph Davis 2011
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(James Adams, the Globe and Mail) "A debauched, capering streak of living gristle."
A face that only a mother (or a writer) could love: scribes weigh in on Keith Richards' visage The Reliable Source 2010
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The bit about not only sugary things tasting good shows Pomelo capering through asparagus-spiked hills.
A Tiny Ambassador to Entrancing Worlds Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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With Cooper having spent much of his time in France over the last several years, away from his native Los Angeles, The Marbled Swarm seems explicitly continental, with touches of the Oulipo Group's literary capering and a tasteful amount of cult-Euro name drops, from Isabelle Adjani to Alain Robb-Grillet.
Brian Joseph Davis: A Literary Outlaw in Paris: Interview With Dennis Cooper Brian Joseph Davis 2011
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I quite enjoy capering about in the gray zone between what might be 'cheesecake' and what might be 'criticism of cheesecake' ... or even 'criticism of criticism of cheesecake,' etc., etc.
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