Слово "caper". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth.

He leaped up and for a moment she thought he was going to cut a caper, before dignity claimed him.

“The De Matigny caper was ingenious.

Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round.

All the animals capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames.

At times we all seemed like children beside him — at most times, but not always, for there was a bluster and zest in Anthony which the rest of us had shed somewhere in our more leisured adolescence, on the playing field or in the school-room; his vices flourished less in the pursuit of pleasure than in the wish to shock, and in the midst of his polished exhibitions I was often reminded of an urchin I had once seen in Naples, capering derisively with obscene, unambiguous gestures, before a party of English tourists; as he told the tale of his evening at the gaming table, one could see in the roll of his eye just how he had glanced, covertly, over the dwindling pile of chips at his stepfather’s party; while we had been rolling one another in the mud at football and gorging ourselves with crumpets, Anthony had helped oil fading beauties on subtropical sands and had sipped his apéritif in smart little bars, so that the savage we had tamed was still rampant in him.