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cap off

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cap something off also cap off something
to complete an experience in a particularly good or bad way We went to the beach, strolled around town, and capped off our visit with a fireworks display that evening.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form cap it all off: There's been bad economic news all year, and to cap it all off, now oil prices are increasing.
Related vocabulary: to top it all (off)
See also: cap


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Pull that cap off your eyes, and hold up your head, sir.
said Celia confidentially to that unconscious centre and poise of the world, who had the most remarkable fists all complete even to the nails, and hair enough, really, when you took his cap off, to make--you didn't know what:-- in short, he was Bouddha in a Western form.
Couldn't you knock her cap off, or her tooth out, or scratch her, or do something or other to her?
 
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