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kaput

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/kəˈpʊt/
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/kəˈpʊt/ · /kəˈpuːt/

Definition of kaput

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (informal, not-comparable)Out of order; not working.
    “My car went kaput.”
    “His career is kaput.”
    “Her marriage went kaput.”
    “German propaganda loudspeaker: […] The Statue of Liberty is KAPUT. Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – huh, that's disconcerting.”
    “In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.”

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Etymology

Borrowed 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.

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