MAFIA

[noun] [U] - a criminal organization which began in Sicily and is active in Italy and the USThe film was about the Mafia.This little village in Sicily is a Mafia stronghold.A mafia is also any close group of people who are involved in similar activities and who help and protect each other, sometimes to the disadvantage of others.She calls her sister's friends the Cambridge mafia - they are all in computing and find work for each other.