kaput
Out of order; not workingOut of order; not working.
/kəˈpʊt/
» This razor is kaput.
Eccles17 · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(informal, not comparable)Out of order; not working.
My car went kaput.
The vending machine is kaput.
kaputt
капу́тkapút
More definitions
- destroyed or killed
Examples
1 sentencesThis razor is kaput.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without aBorrowed 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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