rapo
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rapo (plural rapos)
- (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).
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From Latin rāpum. Not to be confused with repo (“rap; rapping”).
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rapo (accusative singular rapon, plural rapoj, accusative plural rapojn)
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- napo (“rutabaga”)
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rapo
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rapo
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rāpō
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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.
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- Rhymes: -apu
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rapo
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