Definition of "capered" [capered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of caper. (verb)

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• "When Blume started talking about sex with Fern, becoming increasingly specific about all of it, the green hue of her flesh, the faded tattoos, her burps, Ernie's thoughts capered elsewhere."
• "Discreetly, in the vicinity of the snake's tail, the mouse capered."
• "He struggled to put a name or face to the voice, but the memory capered at the edge of his recall, out of reach and beyond his grasp."