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Cosa Nostra

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Co·sa Nos·tra  (ks nstr)
n.
The Mafia operating in the United States.
[Italian, our concern : cosa, thing, affair + nostra, feminine of nostro, our.]
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Noun1.Cosa NostraCosa Nostra - a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
Maffia, Mafia
omerta - a code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about criminal activities
crime syndicate, syndicate, mob, family - a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
mafioso - a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States
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Much familiar information, kind of talky, but intermittently fascinating look at the Cosa Nostra, with interviews with Joseph Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) and Henry Hill (Liotta's real-life character in ``GoodFellas'').
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Directed by John Gotti to "make sure that only one of you comes out of the operating room breathing" on one hand, yet threatened with ruin by mayor Giuliani on the other, he had to make the choice of a lifetime between loyalty to La Cosa Nostra and adherence to the Hippocratic Oath.
Il Dottore by Buhle, Willis M. / Reviewer's Bookwatch
In "real" life, Hiro is a lowly delivery driver for the country's largest franchise, Cosa Nostra Pizza, daily maneuvering the dangerous turf of the surrounding "burbclaves," former suburbs that have become independent city-states inside walled compounds.
Snow Crash by Short, Carroll Dale / Kliatt
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