kaput

American  

[kah-poot, -poot, kuh-] / kɑˈpʊt, -ˈput, kə- /

adjective

Slang.

1. ruined; done for; demolished.

2. unable to operate or continue.

   The washing machine is suddenly kaput.

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idioms

1. go kaput, to cease functioning; break down.

   The old car finally went kaput.

kaput British  

/ kæˈpʊt /

adjective

1. informal (postpositive) ruined, broken, or not functioning

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Etymology

Origin of kaput

First recorded in 1890–95; from German: originally, “trickless” (in game of piquet), from French (être) capot “(to be) without tricks,” i.e., make zero score

Example Sentences

I feel I need to go until I’m done thinking or until my brain just goes kaput.

From Los Angeles Times

His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput.

From New York Times

"Don't worry about this Rwanda issue. It is kaput," he claimed.

From BBC

But then the car’s transmission went kaput and she had to take out a costly loan to fix it, and keep her toehold in the middle class.

From Seattle Times

Because the qubits are entangled, these errors spread like wildfire, and the entire computation goes kaput.

From Science Magazine