Cap'n

cap'n English Noun en informal en Captain. 25 December 1921 BABY WHALE JOINS ITS DAD. So Says Cap'n Edwards, but Amagansett Has Doubts. https://web.archive.org/web/20251107151920/https://www.nytimes.com/1921/12/25/archives/baby-whale-joins-its-dad-so-says-capn-edwards-but-amagansett-has.html The cynical assert that Cap'ns Edwards and Felix and the rest of them don't know a bull whale when they see one, and that the chances are that Father Whale is the missing member of the family. 27 October 1992 Adrian Leftwich A serious offence, piracy: When Cap'n Hook vanished one day, Adrian Leftwich investigated https://web.archive.org/web/20220706085123/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/a-serious-offence-piracy-when-cap-n-hook-vanished-one-day-adrian-leftwich-investigated-1559782.html HE WAS a fine pirate, in the best piratical tradition, and stood outside our local toy library. 22 May 2017 Mike McCahill Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales review – Cap'n Jacks panto's back https://web.archive.org/web/20170522200317/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/22/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales-johnny-depp-kaya-scodelario Javier Bardem brings an air of mouldering chorizo to this guest-villain role, but the screenplay doesn’t develop the enmity so much as jetski around it, stirring up noisy turbulence – doubtless sensing that the fanbase isn’t here for intricate yarn-spinning, rather the long-awaited/shruggingly tolerated return of Cap’n Jack.