Dictionary definition of “twist (someone’s) cap”

twist (someone’s) cap

v. phr. 1. to amaze, astonish, or enlighten. 2. (in hip-hop) to kill someone; to beat, outwit, or get the better of someone. Also twist (someone’s) cap back. Subjects: English, Hip-Hop, Slang

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Citations: 1996 [Michael Taylor] Usenet: rec.music.industrial (Feb. 6) “Re: Trent Reznor vs David Bowie”: “Bob Dylan is Better Than You, Mike.” “perhaps, but on the same token, the new kids on the block can twist your cap back.” 1997 CMT, E A Ski, Posse West Coast Bad Boyz II (Jan. 10) “IMG”: You raise your glock at my clique (we’ll take your life nigga)/It ain’t no thing for us to blast/(And twist your cap and leave a hole in your ass). 1998 [Oldnastybast] Usenet: alt.drugs.hard (Jan. 6) “Re: how to score?”: If you are white and not from the “hood” then don’t pass thru. You have a 99.9% chance of getting “punked” or if your realy unlucky “blasted” some people have no problem with “twisting yo cap back.” 1998 Dave Hoekstra Chicago Sun-Times (Oct. 25) “Nearly 50 years in the red” p. 3: Bring a portable grill and have a weenie roast. Hold the mustard, of course. And if that doesn’t twist your cap, try a taco at Bert’s Chuck Wagon. 2000 [TravIsGod] Usenet: rec.martial-arts (Oct. 2) “Re: you better be big!”: “Small guys are supposed to just take it?” “No, you should return and twist his cap back.” 2001 [State-Of-Mind] Usenet: alt.sport.lasertag (June 18) “Re: Advancement in south”: If you however say sorry now i promise i won’t twist your cap in the maze when i see you, just max you and let you live to at least to put up a decent score. 2001 [Timid] Usenet: alt.rap (Aug. 27) “Saggin Tit Season—Pizon vs Adrunk”: Did Ad drag his arse out of the pub long enough to mix an effective enough rhyme cocktail to twist Pizon’s cap back? Or will Pizon rip through Ad like a newbie in a NY jail? 2003 [Hot Apple Pie] SOHH.com Global Forum (Sept. 3) “Why is it gangsta to be ignorant and portray a life of crime?”: They making money so what you fussing for. that’s how it be so don’t get twisted i’ll twist your cap one in dat azz for the 92. 2005 Schmid-E The Underground Network (July 19) “TONIGHT—LUSH Tuesdays @ Double Daughters”: That funny feeling was from the Go Fuck Youself Juice in the big red thing behind the bar, not the tree. That shit will straight twist your cap back 2006 [W.G.] @ San Diego, California Yelp (Jan. 19) “Carnegie Delicatessen & Restaurant”: The last time i tried to eat a sandwich bigger than my head i woke up in a cold sweat chewing on my pillow. when you are lucid and you think you are up to the challenge, go to carnegie for their paean to meat. more stacked than anna nicole smith in her prime, any sandwich on the menu will twist your cap back. 2006 Tony Q. Hales Visalia Times-Delta (California) (Jan. 20) “Abortion afflicts the black community”: It would twist your cap sideways if you truly knew the origins of Planned Parenthood. 2006 [MZ Cane] Comments from the Edge (Raleigh, North Carolina) (Apr. 24) “Just a Friend?”: I have also had one of my husband’s deranged friends cross the friendship line. I almost whipped a b**ch’s azz for calling my damn house in the middle of the night, thinking she was “slick.” Crazy heifer..turned damn right obsessive over my man, because hers was a putz. Step to him again and see if I don’t twist your cap back. 2006 Yatsushiro Radio (Kyushu, Japan) (May 3) “Vacation de-flation round 1: Ladies Love Cool Jones”: If anything, I really feel sorry for the journalists in the room. Can you imagine having your cap twisted back by a person that makes their living parodying you? It’s like that tom when Dom from Rusted Shut got a nomination for best musician in Houston.

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