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ka⋅put

  [kah-poot, -poot, kuh-]
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–adjective Slang.
1. ruined; done for; demolished.
2. unable to operate or continue: The washing machine is suddenly kaput.
—Idiom
3. go kaput, to cease functioning; break down: The old car finally went kaput.
Origin:
1890–95; < G: orig. trickless (in game of piquet) < F (être) capot (to be) without tricks, i.e., make zero score
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ka·put also ka·putt   (kä-pŏŏt', -pōōt', kə-)   
adj.   Informal
Incapacitated or destroyed.

[German kaputt, from French capot, not having won a single trick at piquet, possibly from Provençal.]
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kaput 
1895, "finished, worn out, dead," from Ger. kaputt, probably a misunderstanding of the phrase capot machen, a partial translation of Fr. faire capot, a phrase meaning "lose all the tricks in piquet," an obsolete card game, from Fr. capot, lit. "cover, bonnet."
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