caça-fantasma
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Portuguese
Etymology
From caçar (“to hunt”) + fantasma (“ghost”).
Pronunciation
Noun
caça-fantasma m or f by sense (plural caça-fantasmas)
- (Brazil) ghosthunter; ghostbuster
- 1997 December, Rogério Daflon, “três por 1”, in Placar, number 1134, cidadão do mundo, page 61:
- Rivaldo aparece com mais força para enfrentar o Gasparzinho. Como um autêntico caça-fantasma, ele lembra que, ao chegar em La Coruña, só ouvia de Bebeto.
- Rivaldo comes out stronger to face Gasparzinho. Like a true ghosthunter, he recalls that when he arrived in La Coruña, all he heard about was Bebeto.