Usually means: Exaggerating or lying for emphasis.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word capping:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. capping: Merriam-Webster
  2. capping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capping: Collins English Dictionary
  4. capping: Vocabulary.com
  5. Capping, capping: Wordnik
  6. capping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. capping: Wiktionary
  8. capping: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. capping: Dictionary.com
  10. capping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Capping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Capping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Capping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. capping: FreeDictionary.org
  15. capping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. capping: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Capping: bizterms.net
  4. Capping: Investopedia
  5. capping: Legal dictionary
  6. capping: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. capping: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. capping: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. capping: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Capping: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capping: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of removing one's hat as a token of respect.
noun:  (geology) the leached upper part of a body or rock that still contains disseminated sulphide mineral deposit.
noun:  The process of covering a borehole in order to seal an oil well.
noun:  The selling of a security etc. close to an expiry date.
noun:  (mathematics) The conversion of a polyhedron into a stellated polyhedron by raising a pyramid on each face.
noun:  (slang, from, African-American Vernacular) Lying or exaggerating.
noun:  (Internet slang) The recording of a television broadcast to one's computer.
noun:  (Internet slang) The method of capitalizing every other word in social media titling and tagging to improve readability over unmixed case. Example: #CAPPINGimprovesREADABILITY.

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