Kapo

Ka·po

[kah-poh]
noun
a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.
Also, ka·po.


Origin:
< German, perhaps shortening of French caporal corporal2

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