English

Noun

**** cap ‎(plural **** caps)

1. (military slang, vulgar) A hat which is gathered and folded on the top.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Penguin 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 633:

     I had warmed under the smiling gaze of this military young woman who wore her small lifeboat hat (these were, I afterwards discovered, known as ****-caps among the girls themselves) and smoked her ration of tobacco, though she always refused coffee.

   • 1993, Philip Lewis, Life of Death, p. 128:

     I hated it – I preferred to wear the gook cap because the **** cap had DUMMHEIT embroidered all across in black, in an elegant cursive, really swanky and stylish.

   • 1989, Paul Fussell, Wartime, Oxford University Press, p. 92:

     The soldier's overseas cap, the one that opens up along the top, is called a **** cap: it's hard to imagine any other piece of conventional headgear, like a policeman's visor cap or a bishop's miter or a motorcyclist's helmet treated automatically with such obscene disrespect.