mafioso
[mah-fee-oh-soh]
- a member of a Mafia or of a mafia.
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Origin of mafioso
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Contemporary Examples
A handful of Mafiosi serving sentences in Italian prisons started cooperating with the police, becoming “pentiti” or turncoats.
“The Mafiosi can not have possession of good things,” Emiliano said at a press conference after the killings in Puglia.
It was a feud between Mafiosi who rubbed each other out with mortars or cannons.
The bar was a gathering place for gamblers, mobsters, mafiosi, and, occasionally, corrupt cops and agents.
Armed with inside information, Bulger outmaneuvered rival Mafiosi and dodged local criminal investigations.
Historical Examples
The ancestors of the mafiosi used to call themselves Cristiani—that is Men in the sense of men of courage and silence.
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mafioso
- a person belonging to the Mafia
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