cap

Definition

  • noun: a small, soft hat that often has a hard curved part (called a visor) that extends out over your eyes
  • noun: a head covering especially with a visor and no brim
  • verb: to cover the top or end of (something)
  • verb: to provide or protect with a cap
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: complete, crown, match

Examples

  • The car was filthy when he returned it to me, and 'to cap it off' [='to top it off'], there was almost no fuel left in the tank.

  • a 'shower/bathing cap' [=a head covering that people wear to keep their hair dry when they are showering/swimming]

  • They may not like being called careless, but 'if the cap fits, wear it'. [=('US') 'if the shoe fits, wear it']

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit... to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. See, now I'm thinkin'... maybe it means you're the evil man... (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction
  • (..) I'm prepared to scour the earth for that motherfucker. If Butch goes to Indochina... I want a nigger hidin' in a bowl of rice... ready to pop a cap in his ass. I will take care of it. Mister? ESMARELDA: Hey, mister? What? (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction