mafia

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

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

Somehow he managed to upset the Russian 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

A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.

A crime syndicate.

A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.

An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.

moral mafia

Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.