Meaning of capanga | Babel Free

Definitions

A thug or bodyguard in Brazil.

Examples

“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.”

“He had never actually killed a man, though the peasants spoke of at least ten sent to their graves by Joazinho, a reputation the capanga did nothing to discourage.”

“Feared by the workers, the capangas intimidate laborers and driver off small farmers with bulldozers.”

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