Definition of "cap"

The G7 countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds into the Kremlin’s war coffers. […] The level of the cap is still being discussed.

2022 September 2, Alex Lawson, “G7 countries agree plan to impose price cap on Russian oil”, in The Guardian‎

Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?

2001, Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon‎

"By the way, are you by any chance the Malone who is expected to get his Rugby cap for Ireland?" "A reserve, perhaps."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton

Overall, though, England’s injury-diminished side coped well on the night when Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jordan Pickford and Tammy Abraham all won their first caps.

2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)‎

Thou art the Cap / Of all the Fooles aliue.

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii], page 93, column 2

He that will give a cap and make a leg, in thanks for a favour he never received, deserveth rather to be blamed for want of wit, than to be praised for store of manners.

1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year MDCXLVIII, volume 1, London: Thomas Tegg and Son, published 1837, page 9

It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.

2023 September 6, Philip Haigh, “£30 billion plan to transform the rail network in Ireland”, in RAIL, number 991, page 25

"How? Didn't I cap for you, an' square you with the examinin' board? Didn't I stake you to the three hundred dollars?"

1906, Alfred Henry Lewis, “Confessions of a Detective”, in Confessions of a Detective, New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, page 36

It's over for you capping-ass rappers—get out the game / You can fool the record labels, but not the streets, man

2003, Antwan Patton et al. (lyrics and music), “Tomb of the Boom”, in Speakerboxxx, performed by OutKast

Tom never miſsed a lecture, and capped the proctor with the profoundeſt of bows.

1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “I Go to Cambridge, and Do But Little Good There”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume I, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], page 231

As if one going to diſtrain upon his own Land or Tenement, where lawfully he may; yet if in doing thereof, he tranſgreſs the leaſt Point of the Common Law, he ſtraight committeth Felony. Or if one, by any other Occaſion, take any thing from another, as Boys uſe ſometimes to cap one another, the ſame is ſtraight Felony.

1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland as It Was in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Dublin: Laurence Flin, published 1763, page 50

1996 December 9, Fox [username], “Anyone has a cap of yesterday's irc-convention on undernet ?”, in alt.paranet.ufo‎ (Usenet)

If you have a cap of Gabby's bare butt from the "forget me not" episode please post or mail it...

1998 September 26, Mr Hanky [username] <meister_hanky@hotmail.com>, “req: does anyone have a cap of Gabby's behind from "Forget Me Not"”, in alt.tv.xena‎ (Usenet), retrieved August 7, 2016

Here's a cap of Jennifer from her latest Letterman appearance […]

1998 April 27, Johan [username], “Jennifer on Letterman”, in alt.fan.jen-aniston‎ (Usenet), retrieved August 7, 2016

Please be assured that when I do get around to capping the Brits, there will NOT be one single cap of that slutty bitch, her whorishness has dropped to even lower levels than before.

2000 March 4, RichieH [username], “Please somebody get a cap of Faye from steps at the Brits!!!!!!!!”, in alt.tv.shaggable.babes‎ (Usenet)

I've capped in VCD format, so will eventually post it to abme (I've since found out that it's a bit OT for this group)

2001 December 3, Methos [username], alt.fan.televisionx‎ (Usenet)

Please tell me someone capped it!!!!

2002 June 11, test . com Ground Hog [username], alt.luser.recovery‎ (Usenet)

If I had a method of capping from video tapes there's a movie that I can no longer remember the name of which has a single scene with Racquel and Derrick as a newly married couple having sex under the lustful eyes of Joey Silvera.

2003 February 18, jacuk [username], alt.fan.pornstar.darrian‎ (Usenet)

Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.

2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive