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What is busting caps?
To discharge a handgun, usually a 9mm, in the direction of an enemy or a rival gang.
Im gonna bust a cap in his punk ass
busting caps - video
Busting caps - what is it?
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!"
What does "busting caps" mean?
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
Busting caps - what does it mean?
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
Busting caps - meaning
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."
Busting caps - definition
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.
Busting caps - slang
Used by gangstas it means "to shoot somebody"
I'm gonna bust a cap in your ass bitch (fires gun)
He's busting caps in somebody's ass fo sho
Busting caps
when da niggaz be bustin capS!!
shooting bullets from their Puny handguns. I will whip out my AT4 and blow all their gangsta azzes to hell. While my buddy snipes em from up in a high window
Demz NiGgAz Be BusTiN CaPs!
Busting caps
From a drug induced study session with several linguists somewhere in Arizona.
Bust-Cap, an exclusive language used when all other attempt at a covert language has failed, and the chick thinks she knows whats going down.
"Bust cap a whackin'"
"Bust it"
"Fuckin' DT times like 20, YK till tommorow morning"
"Chinnie!"
Busting caps
Shooting firearms, either for fun or practice, or in a violent altercation.
"Man, I'm bored. Let's go down to the range and bust some caps."
"As soon as the hajiis tripped the mine, we all started busting caps to port. I fired three magazines before we cleared the block."