cut capers
verb1
To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.
- I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
- Related terms
- caper-cutting, caper cutting, cut a caper