Slang of the Mafia
A Mafioso’s Handbook
         By

   Charles White
Action
• Term for illegal profits
  or activity
Button
• A soldier in a Mafia
  family
Crumb
• A person who works
 for a living . Not a
 member of the Mafia
Don
• A Mafia boss
Earner
• Some one who
 makes money for the
 Mafia .
Flip
• To cooperate with
  police.
Ghost Payroll
• To lie about having a
  lot of employees to
  hide money for the
  Mafia
Hit the Mattresses
• To hide the boss
  during an underworld
  feud.
Ice
• Murder
Junk
• Drugs
Knock off
• Kill
LCN

• FBI abbreviation for
  La Cosa Nostra -
  translates to “the our
  thing”. Another term
  for the Mafia.
Mark
• Person or place
  targeted for criminal
  activity .
Numbers

• Common Mafia
 gambling activity .
Outfit
• Local Chicago
 term for Al
 Capone’s Mafia
 family
Pinch

•
    Arrest
Rat
• Snitch
Stand Up Guy
• Someone
 who does
 not snitch
 on his
 partner
 even to
 save
 himself

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Tail
• Law
 enforcement
 officer who
 is tracking a
 criminal




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Under Boss

• Second in
 command




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Vendetta

• A promise
 to get even
Wire

• A gadget to
 listen to other
 people’s
 conversations




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Zip

• Put down
 term for
 Sicilian
 Mafia
 members in
 the USA!!



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Citations
• http://www.onewal.com/maf-glos.html
• www.shutterstock.com
• http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gangster
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•   www.fotosearch.com/clip-art/gangster.html




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