Definitions from Wiktionary (Mafia)

▸ noun:  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 Russian one, the Japanese one).
▸ noun:  The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
▸ noun:  Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.
▸ noun:  A 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".
▸ noun:  A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
▸ noun:  A crime syndicate.
▸ noun:  A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
▸ noun:  (in compound terms such as "moral mafia") An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.

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