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US
/kəˈpoʊn/
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NOUN
- United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947)
How To Use Capone In A Sentence
- On February 14, 1929, Al Capone dispatched his henchmen to dispose of his crime syndicate's rival, Moran and his North Side Gang.
- We have become anesthetized to totally criminal behavior occurring right before our eyes but I think this would be like Al Capone telling the mayor of Chicago to fire half the Chicago police force, and him doing it. John R. Talbott: Why No Banksters Have Been Arrested
- Swindon police had better luck bringing their Al Capone to justice than their American counterparts.
- The city's vivid past gave rise to numerous films about Al Capone and the mob in Chicago, as well as violent television series like "The Untouchables," with crimebuster Eliot Ness engaged in weekly submachine gun battles with the likes of Frank Nitti. CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2004
- Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust. The Gastronomica Reader
- Catching him up on a financial technicality is akin to nailing Capone on tax evasion.
- He considered McCormick "the town's tutelary deity" and one of the "molders" of the city, along with Al Capone and Samuel Insull. Chicago Reader
- Al Capone's business card said he a used furniture dealer.
- Eliot Ness was the intrepid lawman who busted Al Capone and was the bane of the Mob in 1930s Chicago.
- Meanwhile, “Chicago” is so named because its bullet-ridden fake walls apparently recall the punctured real walls of Al Capone's Chicago. “Chicago”