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23:42 Feb 2, 2011

English to Italian translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Slang

English term or phrase: heavy

Cosa vuol dire "to be a local heavy"?

E' una frase che ho trovato in relazione a Ranuccio Tomassoni, un rivale di Caravaggio

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3 +1

guappo / camorrisita / delinquente

Ernestine Shargool

caporione

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Discussion entries: 1

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30 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

guappo / camorrisita / delinquente

Explanation:
Se si riferisce a quando Caravaggio era a Napoli userei 'guappo' (magari fra virgolette). Altrimenti camorrista / delinquente.

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noun (heavies) 1 slang a large, violent and usually not very intelligent man.

heavy man (coll) criminale, delinquente;

A s.m.

guappo
merid. Camorrista
‖ estens. Persona arrogante e prepotente

B agg.
1 Arrogante, prepotente, senza scrupoli

2 Vestito in modo vistoso, pacchiano

Ernestine Shargool
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:31
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Native speaker of:

English,

Italian

15 hrs confidence:

caporione

Explanation:

caporione - Dizionario italiano WordReference.com
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caporione - Definizione del vocabolo e dei suoi composti, e discussioni del forum. ... che provocano disordini: Esempio: un caporione della malavita locale. ...
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Caporione: spreg. Capo di gente di malaffare, di facinorosi. Definizione e significato del termine caporione.
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AdamiAkaPataflo
Local time: 18:31
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Feb 3, 2011 - Changes made by Daniela Zambrini:
Field	Other => Art/Literary
Field (specific)	Other => Slang

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