Caper

Definitions

1. A playful leap or jump.
2. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
3. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
4. The capercaillie.
   Scotland
5. A jump while dancing.
6. A plant of the genus Capparis.
7. A prank or practical joke.
8. Playful behaviour.
   plural-normally
9. A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“His caper had failed to find⟳ a comic resolution. Instead, there had been a genre switch⟳, and the madcap adventure had turned serious. Or had this bleakness underlain the caper from the start⟳?”

“The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set⟳ during the big band era following a detective in search⟳ of a cheese heiress[.]”

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