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Al Capone

Pronunciation pronunciation key
kăpōn

Definition 
A gangster, specifically someone who acts as (or as though) head of a criminal organization, in a habitually illicit manner. Al Capone (1899–1947) was a notorious leader of organized crime in Chicago during the Prohibition years of the 1920s and 1930s, who long evaded arrest until eventually tried on charges of tax fraud and imprisoned in Alcatraz. "He ruled the streets in his territory like a budding Al Capone" (Jack Caplan, Memories of the Gorbals, 1991).

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