cap up

English

Verb

cap up (third-person singular simple present caps up, present participle capping up, simple past and past participle capped up)

  1. (slang, transitive) To divide (a drug) into capsules.
    • 2006, Dean McCormick, Dead End Street, page 62:
      Eventually we got it all capped up, one thousand doses just like Rob had said. […] I was going to become a three-drug connection to all my friends, psychedelics, hash and pot.
  2. (typography, British) To modify (the initial letter of a word) to be a capital letter.
    Do not cap up "oblast" or "province" in place names.
    • 2004, Tony Harcup, Journalism: Principles and Practice‎[1], SAGE Publications, Style Guide for Journalists, page 137:
      Secretaries of State: Cap up titles, as in Home Secretary David Blunkett and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
    • 2010, Simon Heffer, “The Daily Telegraph Style Guide”, in The Telegraph‎[2]:
      Capping up: the general presumption is against using caps. Their use should be to denote something that is unique. The Pill immediately spells the contraceptive pill and the Forces indicates that we are talking about Britain's military and not the forces of light.
    • 2018 August 28, “Presenting Content”, in Central Bedfordshire Council‎[3]:
      Cap up the first letter of the first word. Then, use lower case e.g.: "View and comment on planning applications" not "View And Comment On Planning Applications"

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