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Concentrated (or Confined) Animal Feeding Operation, also known as a 'factory farm'. In industry/government publications, CAFO will usually signify "Concentrated". Many non-industrial organic farmers and animal rights advocates prefer "Confined" as a more accurate adjective for the term CAFO. A quoted Google query for each variant reveals that "concentrated" outnumbers "confined" approximately 6-to-1 in search results.
Traditional organic farmers often oppose the arrival of CAFOs and factory farms in their areas.
CAFO by VocabularyGuy June 11, 2006
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Concentrated (or Confined) Animal Feeding Operation, also known as a 'factory farm'. In industry/government publications, CAFO will usually signify "concentrated". Organic farmers and animal rights advocates prefer "confined" as a more accurate adjective for this term. A quoted Google query for each variant reveals that "concentrated" outnumbers "confined" approximately 6-to-1 in search results.
Traditional organic farmers usually oppose the arrival of CAFOs and factory farms in their areas.
CAFO by VocabularyGuy June 11, 2006
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"Cafone" is an Italian word that has found its way into American English slang. It was originally a neutral Italian word meaning a poor peasant. However, in Italian it evolved to mean an uncouth, boorish, ill-mannered person, and that's also what it means in American English slang.
I was sitting in a quiet corner trying to get my baby to fall asleep, when that cafone came over, cigarette dangling from her mouth, reeking of cologne, carrying a blaring radio, and asked me whether he was my "real son."
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A general term used to describe behavior that is rude, boorish, uncouth and/or ill-mannered.
Knowing Lisa liked baked goods with apples, I went to the bakery, waited on a long line, and struggled to communicate with a counter person who didn't speak English so tht I could buy her a fresh baked apple-spice muffin. Upon offering it to her, she responded "No thanks, I only eat dutch-apple muffins." "What a cafone," I thought as I walked away.
cafone by G. Silly July 27, 2006