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capper

[kap-er]

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noun

a person or thing that caps.

Also called topper. something that completes or adds to what has preceded it: The capper was that we didn't know each other after all.

Slang. an informer, especially for gamblers.

Slang. a by-bidder at an auction.

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Origin of capper

1350–1400 (for sense “cap maker”); 1580–90 (for def 1); Middle English; see cap¹, -er¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for capper

“I think people love those cats things because they want something real,” says Capper.
VICE Filmmaker Andy Capper on Snoop Lion Doc, Chief Keef Series, More|Marlow Stern|March 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Capper got his start in journalism at 17, working for the local Liverpool newspaper, Visiter.
VICE Filmmaker Andy Capper on Snoop Lion Doc, Chief Keef Series, More|Marlow Stern|March 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Grabbing a prime-time anchor spot in exchange for cheerleading for a controversial merger would be the capper on that career.
Sharpton's Affirmative-Action Win|Wayne Barrett|July 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He kept the loading-tools he had used as a boy: a capper for shot-gun shells, a mold for lead bullets.
Main Street|Sinclair Lewis

Capper shook his head in a dull way; then pressed the palms of his hands to his forehead.
Dead Man's Love|Tom Gallon
Mr. Capper's assertion that I was only actuated by a love of notoriety, were just the words to do me injury.
The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England|George Jacob Holyoake
Capper was swaying a little, but otherwise seemed alert enough.
Dead Man's Love|Tom Gallon
The name Hatter, once frequent enough, is almost extinct, and Capper is not very common.
The Romance of Names|Ernest Weekley