capo
IPA: kˈɑpoʊ
noun
- A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
- A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
- A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
- A surname.
- Alternative spelling of kapo [(historical) A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.]
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Examples of "capo" in Sentences
- Capo in the Lupertazzi crime family.
- Bonanno soldier and the capo murders.
- It has nothing to do with capo or caporal.
- There's no such thing as a Capo with no crew.
- Todaro was a capo, but not a controller back then.
- Songs are led by a capo with the aid of a megaphone.
- Castellano was a major earner as a capo in the family.
- Others can be achieved using a capo and/or a partial capo.
- Capo Ferro defines the forte as the blade from the hilt to the middle.
- The da capo aria was common in the musical genres of opera and oratorio.
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