Mafia — meaning in English
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English meaning
- Mafia noun An organized crime syndicate built on secrecy, hierarchy, and intimidation, especially (capitalized) the Sicilian and Italian-American criminal network.
Senses
Mafia is used for these senses in English:
- Mafia 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".
- mafia A crime syndicate.
Mafia — full definition
- noun An organized crime syndicate built on secrecy, hierarchy, and intimidation, especially (capitalized) the Sicilian and Italian-American criminal network.
- noun Informally, any tightly-knit group seen as controlling something through influence or pressure rather than crime.
- noun A social deduction party game in which secretly assigned "mafia" players try to eliminate the rest of the group without being identified.