capper

[ kap-er ]

/ ˈkæp ər /

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.

Nearby words

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

“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