- Administration: The top members of the Family, usually composed of the boss, underboss, and consigliere.
- Associate: At first you will work for the Family as an associate. Only if you prove yourself will you be sworn in as a full member.
- Babbo: A mafia term for an underling who is considered to be useless – you don't want to be one of these or your days may be numbered.
- Big earner: Mafia lingo for someone who makes a lot of money for the family.
- Boss: The head of the Family (the Don). The Mafia boss has the ultimate say in all important decisions.
- Broken: When a member is demoted in rank.
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- Buttlegging: Bootlegging untaxed cigarettes.- Button: A Mafia ‘soldier’.
- Capo: A Captain in the family.- Capo di tutti capi: The Mafia boss of the strongest Family - highest of all mafia ranks.
- Cleaning: Covering your tracks to ensure that you’re not being followed.
- Clip: This means to eliminate someone.
- Clock: To keep a person under surveillance.
- Comare: A common term for a woman that they may be dating outside of marriage - a Mafia mistress
-Compare: Croney, close pal. Literally 'Godfather' in Italian.
- Consigliere: The counsellor to the boss.
- Contract:Murder assignment.
- Cosa Nostra: Italian for 'this thing is ours'.
The Sopranos Italian Slang Word
- Crew:A body of soldiers assigned to a capo.- Cugine: A young ambitious gangster who wants to climb the ranks of power.
- Double-decker coffin: A coffin, which has a secret lower compartment used to dispose of a victim.
- Earner:One who generates income for a Mafia family.
- Enforcer: A member of the Family entrusted to ensuring fulfilment of deals by threats and if necessary killing.
- Fanabala: Italian-American dialect, morphed over the years from, 'Va Fa Napoli' which literally mean, 'go to Naples' but in the vernacular 'go to hell'.
- Fanook: Derived from 'finocchio', a derogatory term for homosexual.
- Friend of mine: How a third party is introduced whom is not a member of the family but can be vouched for.
- Friend of ours: Introduction of one made member to another.
- Gabagool: Gabagool is slang for capicola, a thinly sliced Italian luncheon meat, taken from the shoulder (collo) and neck (capo - head) of a pig.
- Ice: This is yet another request for you to kill someone.
- Juice: Theinterest paid on a loan.
- Large: A grand, one thousand. 'He owes me fifty large!' means ($50,000.00).
- Madonn': Madonna, common expression meaning holy smoke, holy cow, something said when surprised.
- Make a marriage: To bring two parties together to 'do some business'
- Oobatz: Crazy.
- Omertá: The code of silence you have to swear when you join the Family.
- Piece: A firearm or gun.
- Pinched: To be arrested.
- Rat: A member who violates the Omertá.
- Shylock:
The Sopranos Italian Slang Crossword Clue
A person who lends money at an extortionate rate of interest.- Skim: Money taken that is not reported to the IRS.
- Skipper:
A Captain or Capo.- Turban: 'Give him a turban.' Means to crack his head open.
- Vig: Italian Mafia lingo for the interest paid to a loan shark for a loan. Usually 2 points or 2%.
- Whack: To murder someone.
- Young Turk: