tough guy, badass, real one
Esse cara é cabra-da-peste, consertou tudo sozinho.
That guy is a real badass, he fixed everything by himself.
Northeastern Brazilian regional expression. Cabra ("he-goat") became Northeast slang for "guy/man"; da peste is an intensifier (lit. "of the plague") roughly equivalent to "one hell of a" in English.
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