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kaput

[ kah-poot, -poot, kuh- ]

adjective

Slang.
  1. ruined; done for; demolished.
  2. unable to operate or continue:

    The washing machine is suddenly kaput.



kaput

/ 办忙藞辫蕣迟 /

adjective

  1. informal.
    postpositive ruined, broken, or not functioning
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of kaput1

First recorded in 1890鈥95; from German: originally, 鈥渢rickless鈥 (in game of piquet), from French (锚tre) capot 鈥(to be) without tricks,鈥 i.e., make zero score
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of kaput1

C20: from German kaputt done for, from French 锚tre capot to have made no tricks (literally: to be hoodwinked), from capot hooded cloak
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. go kaput, Slang. to cease functioning; break down:

    The old car finally went kaput.

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Example Sentences

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His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput.

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"Don't worry about this Rwanda issue. It is kaput," he claimed.

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But then the car鈥檚 transmission went kaput and she had to take out a costly loan to fix it, and keep her toehold in the middle class.

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In a post that day on X, formerly known as Twitter, Goenka wrote that the Sony deal going kaput was 鈥渁 sign from the Lord.鈥

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Because the qubits are entangled, these errors spread like wildfire, and the entire computation goes kaput.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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