plural capos
: a movable bar attached to the fingerboard of a fretted instrument to uniformly raise the pitch of all the strings
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D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
In the nineties, a boy named Giuseppe Di Matteo was held by a Mafia capo there and tortured for nearly two years, because the boy’s father—a mobster turned informant—was set to testify against his fellow gang members.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Speculation has spread in Mexico that Guzmán López sought to turn in the elderly, rival capo in hopes of leniency for himself and his younger brother, Ovidio, who is also in federal custody in the United States facing drug-smuggling charges.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article A deteriorating Colombo crime family capo who terrorized and extorted a labor union leader for decades was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for racketeering.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2024
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Born into an important ’Ndrangheta family—her father was a capo—F. got married at nineteen and had two children.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
In the nineties, a boy named Giuseppe Di Matteo was held by a Mafia capo there and tortured for nearly two years, because the boy’s father—a mobster turned informant—was set to testify against his fellow gang members.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Speculation has spread in Mexico that Guzmán López sought to turn in the elderly, rival capo in hopes of leniency for himself and his younger brother, Ovidio, who is also in federal custody in the United States facing drug-smuggling charges.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article A deteriorating Colombo crime family capo who terrorized and extorted a labor union leader for decades was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for racketeering.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2024
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“Capo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capo. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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