caveirão

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From caveira (“skull”) +‎ -ão (augmentative suffix). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃ Hyphenation: ca‧vei‧rão === Noun === caveirão m (plural caveirões) augmentative of caveira Synonym: caveirona (Brazil, chiefly Rio de Janeiro, slang) armoured car used by the Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais Synonyms: pacificador, cara de lata ==== Hypernyms ==== (armoured vehicle): blindado === Further reading === “caveirão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026