Definitions
a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
Word origin
From Latin capparis, from Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis).
Used in a sentence
“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[.]”
“He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury’s hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Playful prank”5 letters
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