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Noun(1) the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate

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(1) With Tielli if he screws up, he stops, laughs and starts again - as he did when he forgot his capo and had to borrow one from Wayne Omaha guitarist-vocalist Matt James.(2) Organised crime is all around, even if it's no longer at the scale when Richie ‘the Boot’ Boiardo - a capo or captain for the famed Genovese family - lived out in Livingston.(3) Rock players usually have a facility with bar chords and don't need a capo .(4) Vinnie, Tony, Little Dominic, Charlie, and the big man himself, the capo , Frankie Pero… they didn't quite become firm friends, though he has written to them since his return to Ireland.(5) Brazzi should surely be a capo , not an employee, and the Five Families think the Corleones want to off him because they have their eye on his lucrative Olive Oil business.(6) Giacomo is both capo , boss, and capofamiglia, head of the family.(7) I have an open-tuned bouzouki, borrowed from a friend, and a capo , so in theory I can play in any key.(8) Unfulfilled, unfortunately, and someone had apparently moved the capo .(9) The Feds say Napolitano was killed in retribution for his ties to Pistone - and they have a ‘high-ranking’ witness who has linked Massino and acting capo Frank Lino to the crime.(10) When it turned out that Ahuja had forgotten her capo , Osborne kindly ran backstage to get her one.(11) ‘Temporary’ should come included with stool and capo , with its murky chord progression and mumbled, depressive vocals.(12) Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, the wiseguy dandy, a Catholic uneasily preoccupied by eternal damnation, but employed as a novice enforcer by his Uncle, a capo from the old country.(13) It was the prosecution of a Gambino crime family capo and his crew for narcotics trafficking, murder, racketeering, jury tampering and other charges.(14) the Sicilian capo claims he controls most of the world's heroin trade(15) A Genovese crime family capo known as ‘Sammy Meatballs’ was overheard talking about the union.(16) I bet you didn't know Pat Metheny used a capo did you?
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