screencap

English

Etymology

Clipping of screen capture.

Noun

screencap (plural screencaps)

  1. (informal) A screenshot.
    • 2022 September 22, Jess Thomson, “‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      No Context Succession and No Context Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which share screencaps from the shows involving funny lines – naturally, out of context. The general formula of a viral post from a No Context account is a screencap of a character saying or doing something ridiculous or relatable: in other words, the magic ingredients of a meme.

Verb

screencap (third-person singular simple present screencaps, present participle screencapping, simple past and past participle screencapped)

  1. (informal) To take a screenshot.

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