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 aguitar used to raise thepitch of allstrings . - noun A
leader in theMafia ; acaporegime .
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
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_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
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A capo is a device used to change the pitch of what musical instrument?
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If using a capo is a crutch, how am I hindering my music with one?
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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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
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If using a capo is a crutch, how am I hindering my music with one??
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I agree that a capo is a crutch and should be generally avoided ..
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I agree that a capo is a crutch and should be generally avoided ..
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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…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.
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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.
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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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