Kapo

[kah-poh]

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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Kapo is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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