capo — meaning in English

English meaning

• capo noun A clamp placed across a guitar's fingerboard to raise the pitch of all the strings at once.

Senses

capo is used for these senses in English:

• capo A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
• capotasto (music) A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering

capo — full definition

1. noun A clamp placed across a guitar's fingerboard to raise the pitch of all the strings at once.
2. noun A senior figure in an organized crime family.

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