Definition of 'cavort'
Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense cavorts
, present participle cavorting
, past tense, past participle cavorted
1. verb
2. verb
Cavort is sometimes used by journalists to suggest that people were behaving in a playfully sexual way.
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cavort in American English
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cavort in American English
(kəˈvɔrt)
intransitive verb
1.
to prance or caper about
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Derived forms
cavorter noun
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[1785–95, Amer.; earlier cavault, perh. cur(vet) + vault2]Examples of 'cavort' in a sentence
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