"cap on" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From cap (“a lie or exaggeration”) + on.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caps on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "capping on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "capped on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "capped on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cap on (third-person singular simple present caps on, present participle capping on, simple past and past participle capped on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That guy is always capping on me—don't believe a word he says.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, page 48",
          "text": "For the first few weeks I didn't say anything when the guys capped on me. My lack of response only encouraged them to bear down, and they capped on me mercilessly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Ramah Lillian Commanday, Survival Or Superiority, University of California Press, page 163",
          "text": "And when somebody started calling us, when somebody started capping on you, talking about you, saying, well capping is a whole bunch of derogatory statements thrown at eachother...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mishna Wolff, I'm Down: A Memoir, St. Martin's Press",
          "text": "Dad agreed with her, but then added, \"Yeah, but I'll tell you one thing. You cap on me... you better not cap on me, 'cause I'll go upside your ass.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Matt de la Peña, The Living, Delacorte Press, page 83",
          "text": "\"Sounds like you got some bad intel,\" he told Carmen. \"More like those chicks were capping on me about working at the pool.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spread caps (lies) or false rumors (about someone); to slander."
      ],
      "id": "en-cap_on-en-verb-B8KdVGsk",
      "links": [
        [
          "cap",
          "cap"
        ],
        [
          "lie",
          "lie"
        ],
        [
          "rumor",
          "rumor"
        ],
        [
          "slander",
          "slander"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To spread caps (lies) or false rumors (about someone); to slander."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "cap on"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From cap (“a lie or exaggeration”) + on.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caps on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "capping on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "capped on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "capped on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cap on (third-person singular simple present caps on, present participle capping on, simple past and past participle capped on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That guy is always capping on me—don't believe a word he says.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, page 48",
          "text": "For the first few weeks I didn't say anything when the guys capped on me. My lack of response only encouraged them to bear down, and they capped on me mercilessly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Ramah Lillian Commanday, Survival Or Superiority, University of California Press, page 163",
          "text": "And when somebody started calling us, when somebody started capping on you, talking about you, saying, well capping is a whole bunch of derogatory statements thrown at eachother...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mishna Wolff, I'm Down: A Memoir, St. Martin's Press",
          "text": "Dad agreed with her, but then added, \"Yeah, but I'll tell you one thing. You cap on me... you better not cap on me, 'cause I'll go upside your ass.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Matt de la Peña, The Living, Delacorte Press, page 83",
          "text": "\"Sounds like you got some bad intel,\" he told Carmen. \"More like those chicks were capping on me about working at the pool.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spread caps (lies) or false rumors (about someone); to slander."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cap",
          "cap"
        ],
        [
          "lie",
          "lie"
        ],
        [
          "rumor",
          "rumor"
        ],
        [
          "slander",
          "slander"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To spread caps (lies) or false rumors (about someone); to slander."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "cap on"
}