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mafia | y |

As a noun mafia

is mafia, mob (organised crime unit).

As a letter y is

the letter y with a (l) above itself.

mafia

English

(wikipedia Mafia)

Alternative forms

* Maffia (less common)

Proper noun

  • (specifically) An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
  • (by extension) Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; .
    • Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia .
  • 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".
  • (an entity which attempts to control a specified arena).

    • Synonyms

    * (organization of Sicilian origin) Cosa Nostra, mob * (any organized crime syndicate) mob

    Derived terms

    * mafia * mafia state * Mafioso * Mafiya

    See also

    * Camorra * capo * godfather * goodfella * 'Ndrangheta * * Thuggee * Triad * Yakuza ----

    y

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=x, next=z, image= (wikipedia y)

    Letter

  • The twenty-fifth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script)

    Symbol

    (Close front rounded vowel) (head)
  • Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
  • close front rounded vowel
  • Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.

    • See also

    {{Letter , page=Y , NATO=Yankee , Morse=–·–– , Character=Y , Braille=? }} Image:Latin Y.png, Capital and lowercase versions of Y , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter Y.png, Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur ----