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caprioling

Variant of capriole

noun

  1. a caper; leap
  2. a type of competitive jump in which a trained horse leaps upward but not forward and kicks its hind legs so that they are nearly parallel to the ground

intransitive verb caprioled, caprioling

to make a capriole

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