Definition of mafioso | Bee Dictionary of English

Said Bianco: "For every mafioso arrested there are another 10 desperate men ready to take his place.
The movie mafioso's arrest is just the latest DUI among the rich and famous: Nicole Richie, Saturday Night Live's Tracy Morgan, Haley Joel Osment and Mel Gibson were all charged .
Open ambition is a dangerous thing for a mafioso.

Saucy survivor tells tales of ‘Blue Eyes’
Among the hit men, bookies and other characters captured on state police surveillance video of James “Whitey” Bulger’s Lancaster Street headquarters in 1980, one stood out — the only woman seen in that gangster sanctum in the images released so far, the unsinkable blond bombshell Eva “Liz” McDonough, moll of the late Mafioso Nicky Giso.
June 27, 2013 - Boston Herald

Diego Maradona in Goal.com
His success in binding what is a disintegrating nation together with an economy that was collapsing into Mafioso style chaos, his success in that must be balanced against the fact there have been huge attacks on individual liberty and on... Peter Hain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF1BoLohBq79mnJQKZGSc6wCzjjgw Washington Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112600292.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF45e9OPQwR_OjWrMy6vVhU4mwIeQ Nov 26, 2006 60316 80530 mafioso The Italians were all disappointed when they were eliminated because Matarrese, who like Blatter is a mafioso, had already tried to fix an Italy - Germany final," said Maradona. "They were so annoyed they accused myself and Canniggia of...
Giovanni Trapattoni in BBC Sport
Asked if that was the image of Italians in Ireland, Trapattoni replied with a smile: "I am not Mafioso."

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