You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
CAPRIOLED
Verb
caprioled
simple past tense and past participle of capriole
Anagrams
• carpeloid, recoil pad
Source: Wiktionary
CAPRIOLE
Cap"ri*ole, n. Etym: [F. capriole, cabriole, It. capriola, fr. L. caper goat. Cf. Caper, v. i. Cabriole, Caprice, Cheveril.]
1. (Man.)
Definition: A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
2. A leap or caper, as in dancing. "With lofty turns and caprioles." Sir J. Davies.
Cap"ri*ole, v. i.
Definition: To perform a capriole. Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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