Definition of "kaput" []

• Informal Incapacitated or destroyed. (adjective)

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• "Thrfeed also claims Lipstick Jungle is officially kaput, which is news to us, but"
• "We should reject Julius Pokorny's Indo-European root *kaput which is poorly justified both phonetically and distributionally."
• "R W Posner's article, noted at Buzz Flash and posted at politicalcortex, elicits emotions of 'kaput' and 'ersatz' experienced between 1st & 2nd WWs."