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capangas

capangas is the plural of capanga.

Meaning of capanga

Noun

capanga (plural capangas)

  1. A thug or bodyguard in Brazil.
    • She saw six armed riders: she could tell, by the way they were dressed and by the clearly visible brand of the same hacienda on the flanks of all their horses, that they were capangas and not cangaceiros or Rural Police.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 208

Questions about capangas

What is capangas the plural of?
Capangas is the plural of capanga.

Words near capangas in the dictionary

  1. Capaldos
  2. Capalong
  3. Capalonga
  4. Capaneus
  5. capanga
  6. capangas
  7. Capano
  8. Capanos
  9. capape
  10. capapie
  11. Capariaan

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