Usually means: Mischievous escapade or playful prank.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. caper: Merriam-Webster
  2. caper, caper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caper, caper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caper, caper: Wordnik
  7. caper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. caper: Wiktionary
  9. caper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. caper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. caper: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Caper, caper: Dictionary.com
  13. caper (n.), caper (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. caper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Caper (disambiguation), Caper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Caper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. caper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. caper: Rhymezone
  19. Caper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. caper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Caper: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. caper: FreeDictionary.org
  23. caper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. caper: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. caper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caper: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAPER, CAPER, CAPER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. CAPER: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caper: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caper, caper, caper, caper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. caper: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See capered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A playful leap or jump.
noun:  A jump while dancing.
noun:  A prank or practical joke.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
noun:  (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
verb:  To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
verb:  To jump as part of a dance.
verb:  To engage in playful behaviour.
noun:  A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
noun:  The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
noun:  A plant of the genus Capparis.
noun:  (Scotland) The capercaillie.

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