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What is Bust a cap?
Attested in "True Grit" by Charles Portis, 1968, but most likely much older.
The derivation is probably from the percussion "cap," a small metal cylinder open at one end with an amount of shock-sensitive explosive, usually fulminate of mercury, used to set off the powder charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
The modern derivation, however, is probably from the "cap gun," a toy firearm using paper "caps" containing Armstrong's mixture or a similar substance to provide the small explosions.
"I have never busted a cap (bust a cap) on a woman or anybody much under sixteen years but I will do what I have to do." -- "Lucky" Ned Pepper
Bust a cap - video
Bust a cap - what is it?
I found this reference to "bust a cap" in a 1951 Gene Autry novel. Gene Autry and the Golden Ladder Gang by W. H. Hutchinson. Whitman 2349
"I guess it is," said Pres as he regretfully fondled the stock of his rifle, "but I surelee hope that somebody gives me a little excuse to bust a cap in their direction."
-- Gene Autry and the Golden Ladder Gang 1951
What does "Bust a cap" mean?
This is not a new phrase as much of the Rap culture would like us to believe. Instead it is an old phrase to shoot someone. Reference to cap is a word for powder cap used in percussion guns popular in the old west. This phrase is used in the 1969 movie titled "True Grit" with John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Dennis Hopper and Robert Duvall.
Line by Ned Pepper (played by Robert Duvall) "I never busted a cap (bust a cap) on a woman or nobody under sixteen. But I'll do it."
Bust a cap - what does it mean?
To fire a gun (military slang from the days of percussion cap and ball firearms before the manufacture of individual cartidges consisting of a metal casing holding a bullet, gunpowder and a primer that fired when struck by a firing pin or hammer.)
We heard some people busting caps a couple of klicks up the trail.
Bust a cap - meaning
History of term: This refers to a toy gun for children that can be loaded with little white powder caps that create a bang sound and small amount of smoke when the trigger is pulled. The word "cap" in the term is derived from the name Capulets . one of the fueding families in the shakesperean drama Romeo and juliet. when used in the term "bust a cap" it is also refering to the theatrical and seemingly gang related interpretation of the play by high school level students.
"Bust a cap on that fool"
Bust a cap - definition
"Shut the fuck up fo' I bust a cap up yo ass."
Bust a cap - slang
1. shooting somebody (usually with a handgun)
2. coming/climaxing in somebody
1. IMMA BUST A CAP IN YO ASS
2. IMMA BUST A CAP IN YO ASS
Bust a cap
To unload your gun on someone and ultimatley, kill them. A very popular activity in the ghetto.
Nigga 1: Hey you want some of dis sheeit?
Nigga 2: Ah, I don wan dat shit.
Nigga 1: I don give a fuck, I don't play that shit, and I'm about to bust a cap motha nigga.
Bust a cap
To discharge a round of ammunition from a firearm, usually a handgun.
Fuck wit me, and I'll bust a cap in yo ass biatch!!!!
That fool was disrespectin' a brutha so I had to straight bust a cap in his ass!
Bust a cap
A slang phrase referring to the posession and use to a certain individial of a firearm or any other object resembling a firearm that emits any sort of a projectile.
"Imma bust a cap in yo mothafuckin ass bitch!"