[key-poh] 
| 1. | any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones. |
| 2. | the nut of a guitar, lute, banjo, etc. |
[kah-poh, kap-oh] | the chief of a branch of the Mafia. |
| ca·po 1 (kā'pō) n. pl. ca·pos A small movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar or similar instrument so as to raise the pitch of all the strings uniformly. [Italian capo (di tastiera), head (of the fingerboard), from Latin caput; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.] |
| ca·po 2 (kä'pō, kāp'ō) n. pl. ca·pos The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate. [Italian, from Latin caput, head; see capo1.] |
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