any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
Whenever you shoot or arrest one capo, you simply get more bloodbaths as rivals fight to take their place.
British Dictionary definitions for capo
capo1
/ˈkeɪpəʊ; ˈkæpəʊ/
noun (pl) -pos
1.
a device fitted across all the strings of a guitar, banjo, etc, so as to raise the pitch of each string simultaneously Also called capo tasto (ˈkæpəʊ ˈtæstəʊ) Compare barré
Word Origin
from Italian capo tasto head stop
capo2
/ˈkæpəʊ; Italian ˈkapo/
noun (pl) -pos
1.
the presumed title of a Mafia leader
Word Origin
Italian: head
Word Origin and History for capo
n.
"leader of a Mafia 'family,' " 1952, Italian, literally "head" (see head (n.)).
"pitch-altering device for a stringed instrument," 1946, short for capo tasto (1876), from Italian, literally "head stop" (see head (n.)).
Slang definitions & phrases for capo
capo
noun
The head of a local unit of the Mafia; Mafia captain: identified as Mafia capo by whatever's current crime commission