arrastão

Arrastar (“to trawl; to drag”) +‎ -ão, from rasto (“dragnet”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁasˈtɐ̃w̃/, /aʁaʃˈtɐ̃w̃/

arrastão f (plural arrastões)

1. Trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)
2. Trawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet)
3. Dragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water)
4. The act of violently dragging something
5. A form of crime, occurring in Brazil and Portugal, in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal every object in it.

• (trawling): pesca de arrasto
• (dragnet): arrasto, rasca, rasto, rastro
• (act of dragging something): arrastamento, arraste, arrasto, puxão

• English: arrastão

arrastão

1. Obsolete spelling of arrastam