capanga

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capanga

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From Brazilian Portuguese capanga.

noun capangas

A thug or bodyguard in Brazil. 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.

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

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

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@misc{capanga_2026,
  title = {capanga},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/capanga},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}