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The answer CAPOS has 67 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of capos in various dictionaries:
noun - the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate
noun - a pitch-raising device for fretted instruments
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| Crime bosses |
| Bars for guitars |
| Syndicate heads |
| Mafia leaders |
| Mafia bigwigs |
| Family heads |
| Fittings for guitar strings |
| Major mafiosi |
| Mob chiefs |
| Mob honchos |
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| Plural form of capo. |
| a clamp fastened across all the strings of a fretted musical instrument to raise their tuning by a chosen amount. |
| A clamp fastened across all the strings of a fretted musical instrument to raise their tuning by a chosen amount. |
| The head of a crime syndicate, especially the Mafia, or a branch of one. |
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A kapo or prisoner functionary (German: Funktionshäftling, see § Etymology) was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks. Also called "prisoner self-administration", the prisoner functionary system minimized costs by allowing camps to function with fewer SS personnel. The system was designed to turn victim against victim, as the prisoner functionaries were pitted against their fellow prisoners in order to maintain the favor of their SS overseers. If they were derelict, they would be returned to the status of ordinary prisoners and be subject to other kapos. Many prisoner functionaries were recruited from the ranks of violent criminal gangs rather than from the more numerous political, religious, and racial prisoners; such criminal convicts were known for their brutality toward other prisoners. This brutality was tolerated by the SS and was an integral part of the camp system. * Prisoner function |