capper

American  

[kap-er] / ˈkæp ər /

noun

1. a person or thing that caps. cap.

2. Also called topper.  something that completes or adds to what has preceded it.

   The capper was that we didn't know each other after all.

3. Slang. an informer, especially for gamblers.

4. Slang. a by-bidder at an auction.

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Etymology

Origin of capper

1350–1400 (for sense “cap maker”); 1580–90 capper ( for def. 1 ); Middle English; cap ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

Newcastle's chief financial officer Simon Capper said "the motivation was very much to reorganise our property assets and get them into the correct legal boxes to allow us to go forward with our potential development and to facilitate that with financing".

From BBC

“This should put a capper, in our opinion, on blue-sky hopes for substantial multiple expansion,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch

Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.

From Los Angeles Times

That might not move Ted Sarandos, but I’m sure he picked up a few votes with that capper.

From Los Angeles Times

It would be the capper for an executive who has at Netflix introduced radical changes that are now norms: binge viewing a season’s worth of episodes at once, streaming movies instead of going to the theater, and paying creators upfront.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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• climax
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