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bicheiro

bicheiro noun: one who runs an illegal numbers game in South America.

Noun

bicheiro (plural bicheiros)

  1. One who runs an illegal numbers game in South America.
    • Today it is played everywhere in Brazil, including remote corners of the Amazon, but continues to be controlled from Rio by about a dozen bosses, called bicheiros.2007 June 7, Larry Rohter, “Brazilian Numbers Game Ties Officials to Mobsters”, in New York Times

Forms of bicheiro

pluralbicheiros

Origin of bicheiro

Borrowed from Portuguese bicheiro.

Questions about bicheiro

What does bicheiro mean?
Bicheiro means one who runs an illegal numbers game in South America.
What part of speech is bicheiro?
Bicheiro is a noun.
What is the plural of bicheiro?
The plural of bicheiro is bicheiros.

Words near bicheiro in the dictionary

  1. Bichat
  2. Bichat's fat pad
  3. Bichat's fat pads
  4. Bichatian
  5. bichectomy
  6. bicheiro
  7. bicheiros
  8. Bichelama
  9. Bichelamar
  10. Bicheno
  11. bichimera

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