Madcap

Madcap is an adjective. It is most often used to describe human personality traits; impulsiveness, hastiness, recklessness and capriciousness are all applicable. An individual described as a Madcap may appear quite indifferent in regard to dangerous situations; a person with a devil-may-care attitude.

Madcap may also refer to:

• Madcap (band), a punk band
• The Madcaps, an Austrian band of the 1960s and 1970s
• Madcap (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• MadCap Software, a software company
• The Madcap Laughs, the first solo album by British musician Syd Barrett
• Madcap (project), an annotated video project of Xerox PARC
• Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (RFC 2730), a protocol to allocate multicast IP addresses in a manner similar to how unicast addresses are allocated by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• A song by Polish Progressive Gothic metal band Sirrah, from their album Did Tomorrow Come....
• Madcaps Truckers, a group of artists providing custom graffiti Trucker Hats