rapo

See also: Rapo, rapó, and rapò

English

Etymology

From rape +‎ -o.

Noun

rapo (plural rapos)

1. (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).

Anagrams

• Paro, prao, proa, roap

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin rāpum. Not to be confused with repo (“rap; rapping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrapo]
• Rhymes: -apo
• Hyphenation: ra‧po

Noun

rapo (accusative singular rapon, plural rapoj, accusative plural rapojn)

1. turnip (Brassica rapa)

See also

• napo (“rutabaga”)

Galician

Verb

rapo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rapar

Italian

Verb

rapo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rapare

Anagrams

• -paro, Paro, apro, opra, paro, parò

Latin

Noun

rāpō

1. dative/ablative singular of rāpum

References

• “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.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -apu

Verb

rapo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rapar

Spanish

Verb

rapo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rapar