arrastão

== Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === From arrastar (“to trawl; to drag”) +‎ -ão, from rasto (“dragnet”). ==== Pronunciation ==== Hyphenation: ar‧ras‧tão ==== Noun ==== arrastão m (plural arrastões) (fishing) trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged) Synonym: pesca de arrasto (fishing) trawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet) (fishing) dragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water) Synonyms: arrasto, rasca, rasto, rastro the act of violently dragging something Synonyms: arrastamento, arraste, arrasto, puxão (criminology) a form of crime in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal the most they can; similar to a flash rob but in an open space ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== arrastão obsolete spelling of arrastam === Further reading === “arrastão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “arrastão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026