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   Mafia

   /ˈmafɪə/

   noun

   • 1. an organized international body of criminals, operating originally in Sicily and now especially in Italy and the US and having a complex and ruthless behavioural code.
   • ▪ any organized group of criminals resembling the Mafia in its way of operating: "the rise of criminal mafias in Russian and Eastern Europe"
   • ▪ a group regarded as exerting a hidden sinister influence: "the British literary mafia"

   Word Origin Italian (Sicilian dialect), originally in the sense ‘bragging’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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