Kaput
/kəˈpʊt/ adj, slang
adj, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Out of order; not working. informal, not-comparable
"My car went kaput."
Adjective
- 1 destroyed or killed wordnet
Example
More examples"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.