Capone
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- proper noun
- /kəˈpoʊn/
- Like the old but true cliche goes, they didn't send Al Capone known to jail for killing people, they sent him to jail for cheating on his tax returns.
- Al Capone
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Watch on YouTubeThey were the only entity that could take down Al Capone, Right?
- They were the only entity that could take down Al Capone, Right?
- This guy is is Al Capone and we've romanticized Al Capone.
- John Gotti was the biggest gangster since Al Capone.
- And as Al Capone himself said, be careful who you call your friends.
- So what it shows is that is that Vladimir Putin is the Al Capone of Russia.
- Like the old but true cliche goes, they didn't send Al Capone known to jail for killing people, they sent him to jail for cheating on his tax returns.
- Why on earth is Trump calling Capone Alphonse?
- And so I got connected with Marcus, dude Capone.
- Cell phones like Al Capone, cell phones like Al Capone, cell phones like Al Capone cell make me moan.
- Tad Al Capone, Tony Fabrizio, Mama Celeste, Little Caesar and their matriarch Penny a la vodka.
Examples
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Your cruise ship, the Harbour King, will circle Alcatraz, a maximum-security prison containing the most dangerous criminals in America, and has been the home of such notorious figures as Al Capone, Baby Face Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly.
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But the guy's not exactly Al Capone.
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And as Al Capone himself said, be careful who you call your friends.
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These guys were I guess you could say people always held Al Capone, right?
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Famously, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion.
Academic text (2018) -
- The feds got Capone on tax evasion.
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Maybe you'’ve heard of Al Capone?
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The smart suited type immortalised by Robert De Niro playing Al Capone in The Untouchables.
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Park Ranger Joe: Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz; all lived in these cells.
Fiction book (1996) -
Al Capone was one of the most infamous gangsters in American history.
Synonyms
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An American gangster who led organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition and went to jail for not paying taxes
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Capone is an Italian family name from capo meaning 'head' or 'boss' plus the ending -one meaning 'big'. So the name literally means 'big boss', which makes it easy to remember the famous gangster Al Capone.