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bicheiros

bicheiros is the plural of bicheiro.

Meaning of bicheiro

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

Questions about bicheiros

What is bicheiros the plural of?
Bicheiros is the plural of bicheiro.

Words near bicheiros in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bicheiros (page history and authors); bicheiro (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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