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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mafioso
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Pulling over, Henry throws open the trunk to reveal the blood-spattered body of a rival mafioso.
▪ This man was not like Rahmi or Pepe; he was neither a hotheaded idealist nor a swinish mafioso.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mafioso

Maffioso \Maf`fi*o"so\, Mafioso \Ma`fi*o"so\, n.; pl. -si. A member of the mafia.

Mafioso

Mafia \Maf"i*a\, Mafioso \Ma`fi*o"so\, n. see maffia, maffioso.

Wiktionary
mafioso

n. (alternative case form of Mafioso English)

WordNet
mafioso
  1. n. a member of the Sicilian Mafia

  2. a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States

  3. [also: mafiosi (pl)]

Wikipedia
Mafioso

Mafioso may refer to:

  • Mafioso or " made man," a member of a mafia organization, usually more specifically a member of the Sicilian Mafia, Italian-American Mafia, or other Italian criminal organizations.
  • Mafioso (film), a 1962 Italian black comedy film
  • Mafioso rap, a hip hop music subgenre of gangsta rap
  • Mr. Mafioso, 1998 album by American rapper Killa Tay
Mafioso (film)

Mafioso is a 1962 Italian black-comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. The film stars Alberto Sordi as a factory manager who visits his hometown in Sicily and is tasked with performing a hit for the mafia. It was awarded Best Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Usage examples of "mafioso".

Belle leapt clear and tracked-on spitting, reflexively sending her first greeting smashing into the gunhand of the opponent and splattering it, then climbing for the heart and the head--and the Mafioso went down gurgling with three Parabellum hi-shock expanders displacing several cubic inches of vital matter.

The Belle sent a single silent sizzler across the pointblank range, and the Mafioso continued turning into a corkscrew to the sidewalk.

He climbed into his Mafioso Cement Mixing Machine, did some adjustments on a computerized bank, then turned to study me.

The great Mafioso Cement Mixing Machine rumbled, turned in the years, and the garage was suddenly empty.

And right behind that was being able to get a murder-one indictment against one mafioso for blowing away another.

Mafia hit the poor bastard because they mistook him for a fellow mafioso who owed money to the mob.

The meaty mafioso took deDondon by the arm and flicked a D-hopper out of his pocket.

As a young mafioso he may have been an adept with a knife, but a machete is more like a sword than i an overgrown knife, and I had the advantage.

But the Tucson Mafioso was a cat, adept at landing on his feet and not yet ready to surrender the last of his nine lives.

The mafioso gestured toward the pile of weaponry with one hand as he turned toward Hinshaw.

The Mafioso with the machine gun was kneeling against the curb, blood trickling from a compound break at the left elbow.

The mafioso bobbed his head vigorously side to side, sighing in relief when Brennan relaxed the tension on the taut bowstring and set the bow aside.

His brother Leonardo, looking, if that were possible, an even more genial member of the Mafioso than he had done the last time, and two others whom van Effen had never seen before.

Mackintosh suspects that he would have done better getting into conversation with the retired mafioso, but now he must follow his chosen course.

A dead Mafioso, shots in the attic, Vidakovich and the brick truck -- all that I could take.