bicheiro
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese bicheiro.
Noun
[edit]bicheiro (plural bicheiros)
- One who runs an illegal numbers game in South America.
- 2007 June 7, Larry Rohter, “Brazilian Numbers Game Ties Officials to Mobsters”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]bicheiro m (plural bicheiros)
- (Brazil, gambling) bicheiro
- 2024 October 29, Jefferson Monteiro, Mahomed Saigg, “Rogério Andrade, maior bicheiro do Rio, é preso por mandar matar rival Fernando Iggnácio”, in g1[2], Rio de Janeiro: Globo, archived from the original on 29 October 2024:
- O Ministério Público do Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) prendeu nesta terça-feira (29) o contraventor Rogério Andrade, patrono da escola de samba Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel e o maior bicheiro do Rio.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “bicheiro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “bicheiro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “bicheiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “bicheiro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
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