kaput
adjective/kəˈpʊt/
/kəˈpʊt/
[not before noun] (informal)- not working correctly; broken
- The truck's kaput.
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from German kaputt, from French (être) capot ‘(be) without tricks in a card game’.Definitions on the go
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