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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal activity, element |
| Synonyms: | Cosa Nostra, Mafia, abyss, criminals, felonry, gangland, gangsters, mob*, organized crime, racket, riffraff, syndicate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hereafter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life after death |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, aftertime, afterward, afterworld, by-and-by, future, future existence, future life, heaven, hell, next world, offing, otherworld, the beyond, to-be, underworld, world to come |
| Antonyms: | life |
| Main Entry: | inferno |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Hades, blazes, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, hellfire, netherworld, purgatory, underworld |
| Main Entry: | perdition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, bottomless pit, condemnation, damnation, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, inferno, loss of the soul, lower world, nether world, pit, place of torment, punishment, purgatory, ruin, suffering, underworld |
| Main Entry: | purgatory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, pit, place of torment, suffering, underworld |
| Main Entry: | racket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal activity |
| Synonyms: | cheating, con game, confidence game, conspiracy, corruption, crime, dirty pool, dishonesty, dodge, extortion, fraud, game, graft, illegality, illicit scheme, intrigue, lawlessness, lay, plot, push, scheme, shakedown, squeeze*, swindle, swindling, theft, trick, underworld |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | Cosa Nostra |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the Mafia |
| Synonyms: | Black Hand, Mafia, Syndicate, gangdom, gangland, mob, organized crime, organized crime family, rackets, the Syndicate, the mob, the underworld, underworld |
| Main Entry: | nether world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Hades, infernal pit, infernal regions, nether regions, underworld, world of the dead |
| Antonyms: | heaven, paradise |
| Main Entry: | Mafia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gang |
| Synonyms: | cosa nostra, family, mafioso, underworld |
| Notes: | mafia in Sicilian means 'boldness, bluster, swagger' or 'beauty, excellence, bravery'; mafia is the organization and mafioso is an individual member |
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