kaput
/kəˈpʊt
/adjective [predicative] informal
Broken and useless; no longer working or effective: the water pump’s broken, kaput...
- Now, he told me, the ‘big way’ of thinking is finished, kaput.
- I was just about done, finished, kaput, when I saw the sign up ahead.
- Well, my conspiracy was pretty much dead, kaput, nada.
Origin
Late 19th century: from German kaputt, from French (être) capot '(be) without tricks in a card game'; compare with capot.
This word meaning ‘no longer working’ comes from German kaputt, from French (être) capot ‘(be) without tricks in the card game of piquet’.
Rhymes
- field fortification
- field fowl
- field-free
- fieldful
- field game
- field garlic
- field general
- field gentian
- reductant
- reductase
- reductase test
- reductia ad impossibile
- reductibility
- reductio ad absurdissimum
- reductio ad absurdum
- reductio ad impossibile
- reduction
- reductional
- reductionally
- reduction division
- reduction gear
- reduction gearing
- reductionism
- reductionist
- reductionistic