bicheiro
English
editNoun
editbicheiro (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.