Usually means: Conical hat symbolizing academic failure.
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  1. dunce's cap: Merriam-Webster
  2. dunce's cap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dunce's cap, dunce's cap: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dunce's cap: Vocabulary.com
  5. dunce's cap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dunce's cap, dunces cap: Dictionary.com
  7. dunce's cap: Rhymezone
  8. dunces cap: FreeDictionary.org
  9. dunce's cap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. dunce's cap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. dunce's cap: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dunce's cap)

noun:  Alternative form of dunce cap. [A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that he or she is a dunce.]


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