capo1
(also capo tasto)
nounPlural capos ˈkapəʊ
A clamp fastened across all the strings of a fretted musical instrument to raise their tuning by a chosen amount.
弦枕（穿过带品乐器所有弦的夹钳，通过弦数来提高定音）- 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.
- I have an open-tuned bouzouki, borrowed from a friend, and a capo, so in theory I can play in any key.
- Tuners, capos, pics, guitar straps and a set of extra strings are all handy toys.
- It can be silly things, like we'll use a capo and drop D, tune the string down to make a chord, rather than just play the chord normally.
- ‘Temporary’ should come included with stool and capo, with its murky chord progression and mumbled, depressive vocals.
- Rock players usually have a facility with bar chords and don't need a capo.
- When it turned out that Ahuja had forgotten her capo, Osborne kindly ran backstage to get her one.
- I bet you didn't know Pat Metheny used a capo did you?
- He was obviously nervous, hands shaking as he put on the capo.
- Unfulfilled, unfortunately, and someone had apparently moved the capo.
brace, vice, press
Origin
Late 19th century: from Italian capo tasto, literally 'head stop'.
capo2
nounPlural capos ˈkapəʊ
North American The head of a crime syndicate, especially the Mafia, or a branch of one.
〈主美〉（尤指黑手党或其分支的）老大；分部头目the Sicilian capo claims he controls most of the world's heroin trade- Or because we tend to think of the politicians and the presidency as occupying a parallel world - Mafia dons and capos dispatching one another in a turf war.
- 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.
- However, al Qaeda is not like the Gambino crime family where if you eliminate the various capos and lieutenants of the organization it eventually goes out of business.
- A 400-pound capo doesn't vanish into thin air.
- On FBI tapes, Gambino capo DePalma claims the mob controls this union.
- It was the prosecution of a Gambino crime family capo and his crew for narcotics trafficking, murder, racketeering, jury tampering and other charges.
- Season 4 begins with him confronting his ill-performing capos.
- 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.
- 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.
- This is the time for the extended family to come together, to pay its respects to the dons and capos, and a time for people who want to be associated with the family to come and be introduced.
- In Queens, New York, two weeks of digging an alleged mafia bone yard has led to two capos of the Bonanno crime family.
- No, we're not talking James Gandolfini, who returns to the premium channel as capo during the third season of the mob dramedy The Sopranos, which premieres with back-to-back new episodes March 4, but another Jersey guy.
- A Genovese crime family capo known as ‘Sammy Meatballs’ was overheard talking about the union.
- Giacomo is both capo, boss, and capofamiglia, head of the family.
- 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.
- Back in New York, Tony Sirico, he plays Paulie Walnuts, a Sopranos family capo who's in trouble with Russian Mafia.
- 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.
- He extracted a guilty plea from Mafia capo John Gambino.
- But as a don, he has no choice but to protect his capos.
- Tony Soprano is no Kurtz or Keyser Soze, although his capos - Silvio and Paulie Walnuts - do occasionally compare him with Napoleon.
Origin
1950s: Italian, from Latin caput 'head'.
capo1
(also capo tasto)
nounˈkapō
A clamp fastened across all the strings of a fretted musical instrument to raise their tuning by a chosen amount.
弦枕（穿过带品乐器所有弦的夹钳，通过弦数来提高定音）- It can be silly things, like we'll use a capo and drop D, tune the string down to make a chord, rather than just play the chord normally.
- Unfulfilled, unfortunately, and someone had apparently moved the capo.
- When it turned out that Ahuja had forgotten her capo, Osborne kindly ran backstage to get her one.
- He was obviously nervous, hands shaking as he put on the capo.
- I have an open-tuned bouzouki, borrowed from a friend, and a capo, so in theory I can play in any key.
- Rock players usually have a facility with bar chords and don't need a capo.
- 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.
- Tuners, capos, pics, guitar straps and a set of extra strings are all handy toys.
- ‘Temporary’ should come included with stool and capo, with its murky chord progression and mumbled, depressive vocals.
- I bet you didn't know Pat Metheny used a capo did you?
brace, vice, press
Origin
Late 19th century: from Italian capo tasto, literally ‘head stop’.
capo2
nounˈkapō
North American The head of a crime syndicate, especially the Mafia, or a branch of one.
〈主美〉（尤指黑手党或其分支的）老大；分部头目the Sicilian capo claims he controls most of the world's heroin trade- 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.
- Back in New York, Tony Sirico, he plays Paulie Walnuts, a Sopranos family capo who's in trouble with Russian Mafia.
- In Queens, New York, two weeks of digging an alleged mafia bone yard has led to two capos of the Bonanno crime family.
- A 400-pound capo doesn't vanish into thin air.
- This is the time for the extended family to come together, to pay its respects to the dons and capos, and a time for people who want to be associated with the family to come and be introduced.
- 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.
- But as a don, he has no choice but to protect his capos.
- Or because we tend to think of the politicians and the presidency as occupying a parallel world - Mafia dons and capos dispatching one another in a turf war.
- However, al Qaeda is not like the Gambino crime family where if you eliminate the various capos and lieutenants of the organization it eventually goes out of business.
- 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.
- Season 4 begins with him confronting his ill-performing capos.
- Giacomo is both capo, boss, and capofamiglia, head of the family.
- No, we're not talking James Gandolfini, who returns to the premium channel as capo during the third season of the mob dramedy The Sopranos, which premieres with back-to-back new episodes March 4, but another Jersey guy.
- On FBI tapes, Gambino capo DePalma claims the mob controls this union.
- 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.
- Tony Soprano is no Kurtz or Keyser Soze, although his capos - Silvio and Paulie Walnuts - do occasionally compare him with Napoleon.
- A Genovese crime family capo known as ‘Sammy Meatballs’ was overheard talking about the union.
- He extracted a guilty plea from Mafia capo John Gambino.
- 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.
- It was the prosecution of a Gambino crime family capo and his crew for narcotics trafficking, murder, racketeering, jury tampering and other charges.
Origin
1950s: Italian, from Latin caput ‘head’.
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