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CAPO (KAH-poh)
A ranking member of a mafia family
A capo in the Mafia is a ranking member of a Family who heads a crew (or group) of soldiers; a skipper, short for capodecina. Also described as the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate aka chief, top dog, head - a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation".
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A capo (short for capodastra) is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo. There are several different styles of capo available, utilizing a range of mechanisms, but most use a rubber-covered bar to hold down the strings, fastened with a strip of elastic or nylon, a cam-operated metal clamp, or another device.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Capo (Mafia)" and “Capo”
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