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(informal, chiefly California) Mexican.
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Any group of individuals who join a protest or demonstration, wearing black clothing including items to protect and/or conceal their faces and often engaging in violence and vandalism; the tactic of forming and participating in such a group.
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(as "the bratva") Russian organized crime collectively.
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A secret crime organization from Naples, Italy, equivalent to the Mafia of Sicily.
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The organization and mode of action of the Camorra.
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A member of the Camorra criminal organization.
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A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
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(slang) Boss of all the bosses, especially in the mafia, Cosa Nostra etc. Often used by law enforcement, the media and the public in general to describe a Mafia boss who exerts significant influence on how the Mafia should run.
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A high-ranking member of a crime family in the Mafia who heads a "crew" of soldiers and has significant social status and influence in the organization.
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A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
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(Canada, US) Involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
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A counselor or advisor, especially to Mafia bosses.
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A person who is in charge of a criminal organization.
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(US, Mafia, slang) A personal friend of the speaker/writer who is not a member of the Mafia.
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(US, Mafia, slang) A member of the Mafia in another town or district, but not a direct rival.
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(US, informal) A Mafia gangster.
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(historical) An English radical group based in London during the 1960s and 1970s, who sought to emphasise the cultural anarchy and disorder being ignored in Britain, with the ultimate aim of promoting proletarian revolution.
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A group of vigilantes intent on lynching someone.
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The victim of a lynching.
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(slang) A gang elder in prison.
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A system in which the government is tied with organized crime.
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A Russian mafia organization.
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mandamento (territory ruled by a Sicilian Mafia clan, under a capomandamento (“family boss”))
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Alternative form of Mr. Big [(informal) The head of a crime syndicate, a high-ranking criminal.]
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A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
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Alternative form of mob-handed [(Britain) Being a member of a group, especially one with violent or threatening intent.]
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Government by violent gangs, or by the masses.
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(Britain) As a member of a group, especially one with violent or threatening intent.
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Alternative form of mob-handed [(Britain) As a member of a group, especially one with violent or threatening intent.]
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(slang) Involved with the Mafia.
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One who engages in mobbism; a member of a mob.
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(Ghana) A volunteer group formed by the National Mobilization Programme (NMP) to solve social and ecological problems.
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A member of a mob or Mafia.
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The practices of a mobster; organized crime.
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(historical) A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century.
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A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
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Alternative form of Mr. Big [(informal) The head of a crime syndicate, a high-ranking criminal.]
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(informal) The head of a crime syndicate, a high-ranking criminal.
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(organized crime) Mara Salvatrucha, a criminal gang operating in some Salvadoran communities in Central and North America.
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(US, dated) organized crime groups responsible for killings in the 1930s and 1940s
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Alternative spelling of omertà [(crime) A code of silence amongst members of a criminal organization (especially the Mafia) that forbids divulging insider secrets to law enforcement, often also followed outside of the organization in fear of retaliation; extensively, any code of silence.]
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(crime) A code of silence amongst members of a criminal organization (especially the Mafia) that forbids divulging insider secrets to law enforcement, often also followed outside of the organization in fear of retaliation; extensively, any code of silence.
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(slang, among criminal gangs) An opponent; an enemy; the opposition
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A boss of underbosses in a criminal organization.
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A member of an organized criminal gang in Indonesia.
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(informal) A member of the Russian mafia.
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A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
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(informal, derogatory) A group of people who can be summoned to attack a target.
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(crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
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A criminal who is respected, has authority and a high ranking status within the criminal underworld in the old Soviet Union, Russia and the republics that formed the former Soviet Union.
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A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
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An assistant to the boss of a crime family
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(US, slang) A member of the Mafia; a mobster.
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A member of a Japanese organized crime gang. (plural: yakuzas)
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