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to caper
noun
A playful leap or jump
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This is better than the ivory billed woodpecker!" He began to caper and shake his arms.
Over the following months, the professor is trained to caper for the postprandial entertainment of his owners.
At times they look like tattered and hapless captives, forced to caper for the amusement of their jailers.
Drive through any neighborhood, and you're likely to see Santas with sleighs, reindeer and all the trimmings, appearing to caper on parched, brown lawns.
"Watching this new Indiana Jones movie is like seeing a healthy, if elderly, elephant forced out of dignified retirement and made to caper and do tricks, to the obvious detriment of its health," he scathes.
Even for a man with an unusually high zany-cell count, he invariably feels the need to caper around his latest quixotic protagonist-king, tilting the lens at 42° like some half-cut Sancho Panza.
Watching this new Indiana Jones movie, on the other hand, is like seeing a healthy, if elderly, elephant forced out of dignified retirement and made to caper and do tricks, to the obvious detriment of its health.
Cracknell trills through an encore version of If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind as a tribute to Cilla Black, then Trevor and Simon return to caper around the stage during I Was Born on Christmas Day and Nothing Can Stop Us.
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