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CUT CAPERS

Specialty Definition: CUT CAPERS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cut Capers (To). To act in an unusual manner. "The quietest fellows are forced to fight for their status quo, and sometimes to cut capers like the rest." - LeFanu: The House in the Churchyard, p. 143. To cut capers (in dancing) is to spring upwards, and rapidly interlace one foot with the other. Cut your capers! Be off with you! I'll make him cut his capers, i.e. rue his conduct. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: CUT CAPERS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Leap	Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: CUT CAPERS

Specialty definitions using "CUT CAPERS": Caper Merchant. (references)

Modern Translation: CUT CAPERS

Language		Translations for "CUT CAPERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		ugrabugrál (to cavort, to cut capers, to frisk, to skip, to skip about), ficánkol (frolic, to cut capers, to flounce, to flounder, to frisk, to play up, to prance). (various references)

Pig Latin		utcay aperscay

Russian		выделывать антраша (cut a caper), прыгать (cavort, cut a caper, gambol, hop, jump, jumped, leap, leapfrog, leapt, sprang, spring, sprung), дурачиться (caper, clown, cut a caper, fool about, fool around, monkey). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: CUT CAPERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-p-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: captures.
	-2 letters: accepts, accrues, accurst, accuser, apercus, capture, carpets, curates, cuspate, pasture, preacts, precast, precuts, scauper, spectra, teacups, uprates, upstare, uptears.
	-3 letters: accept, accrue, accuse, acuter, acutes, apercu, aspect, cactus, capers, carets, carpet, carpus, cartes, caster, caters, catsup, causer, cercus, cesura, crapes, crates, cruces, cruets, cruset, cuesta, curate, curets, epacts, eructs, erupts, escarp.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-p-r-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: spectacular.
	+3 letters: acupunctures, plutocracies, spectaculars.
	+4 letters: reoccupations, spectacularly, supercritical, unspectacular.
	+5 letters: nonspectacular, preoccupations, superspectacle.
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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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