What does caper mean?
Caper means A playful leap or jump..
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/ˈkeɪpɚ/ · noun
A playful leap or jump..
His caper had failed to find a comic resolution. Instead, there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious. Or had this bleakness underlain the caper from the start?
The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress[.]
He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury’s hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.
Use caper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Caper means A playful leap or jump..
Common synonyms include caperberry, caper bush, caper tree, antic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His caper had failed to find a comic resolution. Instead, there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious. Or had this bleakness underlain the caper from the start?
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