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the capo
noun
A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
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The capo who survives never boasts.
The capo di capo of the Cambridgeshire Federation of Women's Institutes Sally Kingman unleashed hell.
"He replied, 'I am the capo of everyone.' I was terrified".
He was the son of Sonny Red Indelicato, the capo that was partners with my uncle.
The Maths had shown the weapon to larger auction houses, but only the Capo staff members saw its sales potential.
The capo in this crew was Mr. Walken, who was seated at the head of a long table.
Mr Bonanno rose in the 1960s to be the capo di tutti i capi, boss of bosses.
Now, he told me, even the capo of the Arellano Félix gang, the Engineer, was on the run.
And the capo of the taxi drivers uses an all-white, top-of-the-range four-wheel-drive Audi Q7.
Obviously, the title suggests that he's the top man, the capo di capi of the English judiciary.
Tristan Tzara, the capo of dadaism, and André Breton, the pope of surrealism, knowingly followed in his footsteps.
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