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The colorful puppets of the beloved local institution Bob Baker Marionette Theater will caper and cavort as part of the “Bob Baker Halloween Spook’tacular.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2021

The Kemps will caper into any undignified scenario for the craic, but what they cannot disguise is that they are nice, and seem to love one another to an unusual degree.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2020

On July 29 in the Bohemian Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here misers may their bones inter In shrouds of neat post-obit paper; While, for their beirs, we've quicksilver, That, fast as heart can wish, will caper.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 by Various

Here, wealthy misers to inter,   We've shrouds of neat post-obit paper; While, for their heirs, we've _quick_silver,   That, fast as they can wish, will caper.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael