What does Capping mean?

A term for lying or telling mistruths.

Capping

Other definitions of Capping:

  • Fibbing or lying.
  • Surpassing or moving beyond.
  • To lie or exaggerate. From 1940s slang for being better than, which often meant exaggeration. Eventually adopted by the hip-hop community to mean lying.

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How to use the term
Capping:

  • You capping, dude. There's no way you're making that much.

  • Don't be capping.

  • Capping is not right in the eyes of the lord.


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