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mafioso

noun as in Mafia

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noun as in mobster

noun as in wise guy

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Black joked, “I’m Mafioso, bruh,” illustrating the way that Trump has treated pardons and commutations: like gifts from a mob boss.

Hopefully, Cohen will be as successful in taking down the most powerful criminal to ever occupy the White House as Gravano was in taking down Gotti, the most powerful mafioso in U.S. history.

From Salon

His model, Trump told biographer-turned-critic Tim O’Brien, is none other than the murderous mafioso John Gotti.

Turns out that betting your political career on someone who models himself after a mafioso is not a great long-term plan for security.

From Salon

In a striking appearance in season three of “The Sopranos” in 2001, he plays Bobby Baccalieri, Sr., an elderly Mafioso with lung cancer who pulls off one last hit before a coughing fit leads to him dying in a car accident.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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