Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A working-horse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
  • noun A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate

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Examples

  • _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.

    The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

  • A capo is a device used to change the pitch of what musical instrument?

    The Mighty Quinn Media Machine 2009

  • If using a capo is a crutch, how am I hindering my music with one?

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • 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.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • If using a capo is a crutch, how am I hindering my music with one??

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • I agree that a capo is a crutch and should be generally avoided ..

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • I agree that a capo is a crutch and should be generally avoided ..

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • …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.

    Now That’s What I Call A Capo | Jewschool 2003

  • 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.

    My Not-So-Peaceful Encounter with the "Peace Camp" 2007

  • Like any 'capo' (mob head), he merely orders the killing.

    American Mob: Bush's Guns, Goons and GHOULiani In The Wings 2007

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