bicheiro

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bicheiro

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noun bicheiros

One who runs an illegal numbers game in South America. Today it is played everywhere in Brazil, including remote corners of the Amazon, but continues to be controlled from Rio by about a dozen bosses, called bicheiros.

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"bicheiro." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bicheiro. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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bicheiro. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bicheiro

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"bicheiro." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bicheiro.

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@misc{bicheiro_2026,
  title = {bicheiro},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bicheiro},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}