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.
- Like any 'capo' (mob head), he merely orders the killing.
- Others can be achieved using a capo and/or a partial capo.
- If using a capo is a crutch, how am I hindering my music with one?
- I agree that a capo is a crutch and should be generally avoided ..
- If using a capo is a crutch, how am I hindering my music with one??
- Capo Ferro defines the forte as the blade from the hilt to the middle.
- A capo is a device used to change the pitch of what musical instrument?
- The da capo aria was common in the musical genres of opera and oratorio.
- …er, no. the capo is the one who takes a job as spokesman for the grandson of the chief funder of the american eugenics movement.
- _Da capo, e da capo_, Mary -- only at night shouldst thou cease from thy sweet pipings, that I might smoke myself to sleep, and dream that all is once more as it used to be.
- I knew a guitarist who called his capo a "cheater"; same idea, that those who use it are in some way cheating or using a crutch -- not following the rules, not fully "abled" musically.
- One theme of these inaccurate descriptions of the assault is the claim that I had provoked it by calling Rabbi Seidler-Feller a "capo," an expression referring to concentration camp inmates during World War II who were forced by the Nazi guards to act as overseers over their fellow prisoners.