capeesh
/kəˈpiːʃ
/exclamation informal, chiefly US
Do you understand? Upstairs is off limits. Capeesh?...
- The New York Post's Andy Bruckman has an interesting theory about the last episode of The Sopranos, one that involves our favorite Associate-wannabe-screenwriter, and some concrete footwear, capeesh?
- So, you're my replacement and you get my code number, capeesh?
- You will get together with us all at our usual place, seven-thirty on the nineteenth, capeesh?
Origin
1940s: from Italian capisce third person singular present tense of capire 'understand'.