mafia
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Synonyms: mania, maia, gafia, maria, mafua, madia, mafic, tafia, mafa, maffia, afia
Antonyms: mania, maia, gafia, maria, mafua, madia, mafic, tafia, mafa, maffia, afia
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Proper noun
- {{senseid|en|Mob}} The {{l|en|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).
Proper noun
- {{lb|en|games}} A [[social deduction]] [[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.
- A [[crime]] [[syndicate]].
- A [[trusted]] [[group]] of [[associate]]s, as of a [[political]] [[leader]].
- {{lb|en|in compounds}} An entity which attempts to control a specified [[arena]] by violence or threats.
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