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Examples
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I am just a gavone but I know the real deal when I see it and Patti Lupone is as good as it gets.
"This is the theater!" — Patti Lupone goes all diva on an audience member. Ann Althouse 2009
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Remember, he was making songs with some other guy, some other gavone, in which he was talking about his love of children and how he wanted to have sex with them.
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Test with a knife comes out clean yer done let cool, schoff like a gavone.
B&W - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I'm gonna make a statement to de press, one a dem press conferences, only I'm gonna call it, not some gavone like Ricardo.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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I'm gonna make a statement to de press, one a dem press conferences, only I'm gonna call it, not some gavone like Ricardo.
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Frankie D - Frank DiPascali - an outta borough brusque gavone
Dealbreaker 2009
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"Explaining that he would not be a gavone about the fee, Seminerio proposed a monthly fee of $700," the indictment claims.
NY Daily News 2009
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word gavone
"An Italian-American word originally meaning an ill-mannered, unkempt pig-man (or woman). Based on italian cultural concepts like making a good show of yourself and an obsession with cleanliness. The word comes from the Italian "cafone", which sounds to an english-speaker as 'Gaw-Vone' when spoken with a southern Italian accent.
Now it's used mostly by Italian-Americans to mean 'trashy' Italians, the ones who didn't give up on their culture and become like white american people. Lately I've heard it directed at the Sopranos characters and the Guidos from Jersey Shore."
-Urban Dictionary
September 15, 2011