bust a cap


to fire a gun (military slang from the days of percussion cap and ball firearms before the manufacture of individual cartidges consisting of a metal casing holding a bullet, gunpowder and a primer that fired when struck by a firing pin or hammer.)
we heard some people busting caps a couple of klicks up the trail.
a slang phrase referring to the posession and use to a certain individial of a firearm or any other object resembling a firearm that emits any sort of a projectile.
“imma bust a cap in yo mothaf-ckin -ss b-tch!”
this is not a new phrase as much of the rap culture would like us to believe. instead it is an old phrase to shoot someone. reference to cap is a word for powder cap used in percussion guns popular in the old west. this phrase is used in the 1969 movie t-tled “true grit” with john wayne, glen campbell, dennis hopper and robert duvall.

line by ned pepper (played by robert duvall) “i never busted a cap (bust a cap) on a woman or n-body under sixteen. but i’ll do it.”

to discharge a handgun, usually a 9mm, in the direction of an enemy or a rival gang.
im gonna bust a cap in his punk -ss
to unload your gun on someone and ultimatley, kill them. a very popular activity in the ghetto.
n-gg- 1: hey you want some of dis sheeit?
n-gg- 2: ah, i don wan dat sh-t.
n-gg- 1: i don give a f-ck, i don’t play that sh-t, and i’m about to bust a cap motha n-gg-.
1.to shoot someone. usually in a gangsta fashion with your gun sideways in cold blood.
2. a commical way to say you shot someone
1.im gonna busta cap in that b–tch
2. yo n-gg-, lets busta cap in those fools.
to discharge a round of ammunition from a firearm, usually a handgun.
f-ck wit me, and i’ll bust a cap in yo -ss b–tch!!!!
that fool was disrespectin’ a brutha so i had to straight bust a cap in his -ss!

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