caps.
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capital letters.
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(in prescriptions) a capsule.
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Etymology
Origin of caps.
caps. ( def. 2 ) < Latin capsula
Example Sentences
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"It's special to be so consistent to get to 50 caps. It says a lot about how much the game means to them and how much it means to play for Ireland," said Farrell.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2023
“I love the idea that America is almost boiled down to minor league baseball caps. It’s a fascinating concept.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
“Those guys were crossing the Ninglick River in 3-foot waves with breakers, white caps. That’s dangerous” John said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
In an online chat in 2014, Bill Walsh, The Washington Post’s grammar and style guru who died in 2017, noted: “Some acronyms get so well entrenched they lose the caps. Like ‘radar’ and ‘scuba.’
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2018
Ist. del Suicidio caps. viii, ix.106.Cromaziano, pp. 92-93.107.Montesquieu, and many Continental writers, have noticed this, and most English writers of the eighteenth century seem to admit the charge.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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