mafia

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

*the mob, Cosa Nostra, organized crime, the underworld, Black Hand, the Syndicate, gangland.

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• advisor to chief: consigliere

• arrested: pinched

• blackmail or scare someone for money: shakedown

• business enterprises: loan sharking, money laundering, drug trafficking, gambling, labor racketeering, counterfeiting, extortion, prostitution, gangland killings

• chief: boss, capo, chairman, don

• code of silence: omerta

• crime family: borgata, brugad

• euphemism: waste management business, garbage business

• gambling profits without declaring on taxes, to take: skim

• gun: piece

• gun, carrying a: heavy, packing

• inducted into the Mafia: made

• informer: canary, rat, squealer

• interest paid to loan sharks: juice

• intimidates, threatens, beats up, or kills; one who: enforcer

• legal protection for testifying against: Witness Protection Program

• loans money at exorbitant interest rate: loanshark

• low-ranking member: soldier

• member of: goodfella, Mafioso, mobster, wiseguy

• mistress of Mafia member: comare

• murder, to: whack, hit, burn, put a contract out on

• second-in-command: caporegime, underboss slipping away by various means from someone who may be following on foot or in a car: cleaning

• soldiers, group of: crew

• stolen goods: swag

• stolen goods, one who receives or sells: fence

• underling, stupid: babbo