Idiom
bust a cap
Meaning
To fire a weapon; to shoot with a gun.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The criminal threatened to bust a cap if they did not open the safe.”
“In the gritty action movie, the hero had to bust a cap to escape the warehouse full of enemies.”
“The detective warned his partner that if the suspects were armed, they would not hesitate to bust a cap to protect their illicit operation.”
Examples
simple
“The criminal threatened to bust a cap if they did not open the safe.”
contextual
“In the gritty action movie, the hero had to bust a cap to escape the warehouse full of enemies.”
complex
“The detective warned his partner that if the suspects were armed, they would not hesitate to bust a cap to protect their illicit operation.”
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