Kaput

//kəˈpʊt// adj, slang

adj, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

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

    "My car went kaput."

Adjective
  1. 1
    destroyed or killed wordnet

Synonyms

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done forall bets offall goneall offall overall up

Example

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"The history of some words is a real masterpiece. For instance, kaput. The original word was the Latin "caput" - "a head"; and the way from "a head" to "the end of everything" is rather long."

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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