The book brings back hardboiled detective Tom Jackson for another caper involving drugs, murder, and intrigue.
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Caper
/ˈkeɪpɚ/
Synonyms for "caper" (144 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (43)
Related words (72)
Related word relations
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More general
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
More specific
15 entriesCollocations
12 entriesbrined capercaper aboutcaper aroundcaper berrycaper bushcaper intocaper loudlycaper throughcaper with joycapers in brinepickled caper budsalt cured caper
Inflections
3 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κάππαρις noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Arabic
4 entries- شَفَلَّح noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- قَبَّار noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- كَبَر noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- كَبَّار noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Aramaic
4 entries- ܟܲܦܵܪ noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- ܢܹܝܨܦܵܐ noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- ܦܲܪܚܵܐ noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- ܩܲܦܵܪ noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Catalan
1 entries- tàpera noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 水瓜柳 noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Danish
1 entries- kapers noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Dutch
1 entries- kappertje noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaporo noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Estonian
1 entries- kappar noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Finnish
2 entries- kapriksen nuppu noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- kapris noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
French
1 entries- câpre noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Georgian
1 entries- ჯონჯოლი noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
German
1 entries- Kaper noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Greek
1 entries- κάπαρη noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Hebrew
1 entries- צָלָף noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Hungarian
1 entries- kapribogyó noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Icelandic
1 entries- kapers noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Irish
1 entries- capras noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Italian
1 entries- cappero noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Korean
1 entries- 케이퍼 noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Latin
1 entries- capparis noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Norwegian
1 entries- kapers noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Persian
1 entries- کبر noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Polish
1 entries- kapar noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Portuguese
1 entries- alcaparra noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Romanian
1 entries- caperă noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Russian
1 entries- ка́перс noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- capar noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kȁpra noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- kȁpār noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- ка̏па̄р noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- ка̏пра noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Sicilian
1 entries- chiàpparu noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Slovene
1 entries- kapra noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Spanish
1 entries- alcaparra noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Swedish
1 entries- kapris noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Turkish
1 entries- gebre noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ка́перс noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Welsh
2 entries- capryn noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
- caprysen noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Yiddish
1 entries- קאַפּער noun (pickled bud of Capparis spinosa)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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?
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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[.]
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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.
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