rapo

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See also: Rapo, rapó, and rapò

English

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Etymology

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From rape +‎ -o.

Noun

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rapo (plural rapos)

  1. (prison slang) A rapist.
    • 2006, Rita Rudner, Turning the Tables, page 105:
      Chomos and rapos, as prisoners referred to child molesters and rapists, were often accorded a prison justice far swifter and more violent []
    • 2008, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Criminal Behavior: Theories, Typologies and Criminal Justice:
      [] politicians, characters, and prison toughs are considered upper middle class, square johns the middle class, and prison queens, rapos, and punks the lower class (Silverman, 2001).

Anagrams

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Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo

Etymology

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From Latin rāpum. Not to be confused with repo (rap; rapping).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrapo]
  • Rhymes: -apo
  • Hyphenation: ra‧po

Noun

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rapo (accusative singular rapon, plural rapoj, accusative plural rapojn)

  1. turnip (Brassica rapa)

See also

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  • napo (rutabaga)

Galician

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Verb

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rapo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rapar

Italian

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Verb

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rapo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rapare

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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rāpō

  1. dative/ablative singular of rāpum

References

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  • rapo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rapo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rapo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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rapo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rapar

Spanish

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Verb

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rapo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rapar