KAPUT or KAPUTT

PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-PUT, -POOT, kah-)

MEANING: adjective: Broken; ruined; finished.

ETYMOLOGY: From German kaputt (broken, ruined), from French être capot (to be without winning a trick in a game of piquet), perhaps from Provençal. Earliest documented use: 1895.
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A.K.A.PUT - another word for a particular risky stock market transaction

KIAPUTT - sound made by a small Rio engine

KAPTUT - disparaging a small hat