cap onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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cap on (third-person singular simple present caps on, present participle capping on, simple past and past participle capped on)

1. (transitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To spread caps (lies) or false rumors (about someone); to slander (someone); to insult (someone's) family.

   That guy is always capping on me—don't believe a word he says.

   • 1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 48:

     For the first few weeks I didn't say anything when the guys capped on me. My lack of response only encouraged them to bear down, and they capped on me mercilessly.

   • 1994, Ramah Lillian Commanday, Survival Or Superiority, University of California Press, page 163:

     And when somebody started calling us, when somebody started capping on you, talking about you, saying, well capping is a whole bunch of derogatory statements thrown at eachother...

   • 2009, Mishna Wolff, I'm Down: A Memoir, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

     Dad agreed with her, but then added, "Yeah, but I'll tell you one thing. You cap on me... you better not cap on me, 'cause I'll go upside your ass."

   • 2013, Matt de la Peña, The Living, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 83:

     "Sounds like you got some bad intel," he told Carmen. "More like those chicks were capping on me about working at the pool."

アナグラム

• pocan, Ponca, copan, capno-, no cap

語源

From 中期英語 capoun; partly from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and partly from 古期英語 capūn, both from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).

発音

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkeɪpən/

名詞

capon (plural capons)

1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     […] You cannot feed capons so.

派生語

動詞

capon (third-person singular simple present capons, present participle caponing, simple past and past participle caponed)

1. (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

アナグラム

• pocan, Ponca, copan, capno-, no cap