mafioso
Noun
Meaning
a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States
a member of the Sicilian Mafia
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I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a mafioso pallbearer.
After his resignation, the booing and jeering continued as he left in his convoy, with the public shouting words such as "buffoon", " dictator " and " mafioso ".
Most famously, he successfully prosecuted Mafioso kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano on charges of compulsory prostitution in 1936.
Mafioso rap Mafioso rap is a hardcore hip hop subgenre founded by Kool G Rap in the late 1980s.
The album is highly notable in that it revived, and expanded the Mafioso rap subgenre, which started to decline several years beforehand.
Since the pentito himself is physically protected by the police, retribution on his family is common; therefore, when there are rumours of a mafioso collaborating with the police, the family usually condemns that person immediately to avoid retaliation.