Usually means: Organized crime families, extortion, secrecy.
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  1. mafia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mafia, the Mafia, the mafia: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mafia, mafia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mafia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Mafia, the Mafia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mafia, mafia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mafia, mafia: Wordnik
  8. mafia, the Mafia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mafia, mafia: Wiktionary
  10. Mafia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Mafia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Mafia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mafia: Dictionary.com
  14. mafia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mafia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MAFIA, Mafia (B.U.G. Mafia album), Mafia (Black Label Society album), Mafia (Fleshgod Apocalypse album), Mafia (The Office), Mafia (album), Mafia (disambiguation), Mafia (film), Mafia (game), Mafia (party game), Mafia (series), Mafia (song), Mafia (video game), Mafia, Mafia, The Mafia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. mafia: Rhymezone
  18. mafia: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mafia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Mafia: The Word Detective
  21. Mafia, The Mafia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Mafia: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Mafia, The Mafia: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAFIA: Acronym Finder
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MAFIA: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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  1. M.A.F.I.A, The Mafia: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The Mob: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian-Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
noun:  The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
noun:  Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.
noun:  A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".
noun:  A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
noun:  A crime syndicate.
noun:  A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
noun:  (in compound terms such as "moral mafia") An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.

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