"cut capers" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuts capers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cutting capers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut capers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut capers",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cut<,,cut> capers"
      },
      "expansion": "cut capers (third-person singular simple present cuts capers, present participle cutting capers, simple past and past participle cut capers)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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        },
        {
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:",
          "text": "I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances."
      ],
      "id": "en-cut_capers-en-verb-kdCEgxdc",
      "links": [
        [
          "brief",
          "brief"
        ],
        [
          "frolic",
          "frolic"
        ],
        [
          "romp",
          "romp"
        ],
        [
          "frantic",
          "frantic"
        ],
        [
          "ridiculous",
          "ridiculous"
        ],
        [
          "dance",
          "dance"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "caper-cutting"
        },
        {
          "word": "caper cutting"
        },
        {
          "word": "cut a caper"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cut capers"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuts capers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cutting capers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut capers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cut capers",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cut<,,cut> capers"
      },
      "expansion": "cut capers (third-person singular simple present cuts capers, present participle cutting capers, simple past and past participle cut capers)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "caper-cutting"
    },
    {
      "word": "caper cutting"
    },
    {
      "word": "cut a caper"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:",
          "text": "I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brief",
          "brief"
        ],
        [
          "frolic",
          "frolic"
        ],
        [
          "romp",
          "romp"
        ],
        [
          "frantic",
          "frantic"
        ],
        [
          "ridiculous",
          "ridiculous"
        ],
        [
          "dance",
          "dance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cut capers"
}