English

Verb

cut capers

1. To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.
   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Tank Form 2007, p. 95:

     I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.

Related terms

• caper-cutting, caper cutting
• cut a caper