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Kaput

//kəˈpʊt// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Out of order; not working. informal, not-comparable

    "My car went kaput."

Adjective
  1. 1
    destroyed or killed wordnet

Etymology

From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.

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