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capo di tutti capi, n.
Brit. |ˈkapəʊ dɪ ˈtuːtɪ ˈkapɪ|, U.S. |ˈkeɪpoʊ di ˈtudi ˈkeɪpi|, |ˈkɑpoʊ di ˈtudi ˈkɑpi|
[‹ Italian capo di tutti capi, lit. ‘boss of all bosses’ > n.1 + di of + tutti, plural of tutto all (see tutti n.) + capi, plural of capo capo n.1]
A person who runs every branch of the Mafia in a region. Freq. in extended use.
[1963Organized Crime & Illicit Traffic in Narcotics (U.S. Senate Comm. Govt. Operations, 88th Congr. 1 Sess.) i. 80 They used to have the boss of all bosses..and then we had the individual bosses of the individual families, and then we had an underboss, [etc.]. ]1972N.Y. Times 11 June ii. 2 (advt.) Mobster Times is the Capo di Tutti Capi of crime magazines. 1974N.Y. Mag. 13 May In 1943 Frank Costello stood astride the criminal world, the undisputed capo di tutti capi, Boss of All Bosses, of the Mafia. 1994J. Lovell & J. Kluger Apollo 13 (1995) vi. 156 Gene Kranz..was the true capo di tutti capi of the control room. 2002New Yorker 12 Aug. 58/1 Sonny Barger, for decades the [Hell's] Angels' equivalent of a capo di tutti capi, is now in his mid-sixties. |