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Examples of kaput
kaput
Now the three huge, politically protected automakers are verging on going kaput.
From the ocregister.com
The chuck wagon is kaput after road tripping 2,500 miles to the Lone Star State.
From the stltoday.com
Out comes his sword, and in an instant, they are decapitated, eviscerated, kaput.
From the time.com
Co-founder Max Ventilla said that Aardvark will be kaput by the end of the month.
From the techcrunch.com
Within months of Einhorn's call to short the investment bank, Lehman was kaput.
From the blogs.wsj.com
Even weirder is the impulse to hang on to the ring after the engagement is kaput.
From the ocregister.com
Believe me, if the line comes down, your broadband is not only limited but kaput.
From the expressandstar.com
Some 800 units by Ford's Colony for continuous care are Exhibit A, totally kaput.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Auto industry partnerships have a tendency to go kaput when interests diverge.
From the businessweek.com
- Done for(p): destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"
- The Latin root caput, for "head" or "top", has been borrowed in a variety of English words, including capital, captain, and decapitate. ...
- Out of order; not working; broken; unable to withstand adverse action, facing elimination, (about to be) finished off [as in a certain German leader was kaput near the end of WWII]
- Destroyed, incapacitated, useless, terminated.
