bicheiro

English

Noun

bicheiro (plural bicheiros)

1. One who runs an illegal numbers game in South America.
   • 2007 June 7, Larry Rohter, “Brazilian Numbers Game Ties Officials to Mobsters”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Today it is played everywhere in Brazil, including remote corners of the Amazon, but continues to be controlled from Rio by about a dozen bosses, called bicheiros.