chivato

A Spanish word for "informer." It could also mean "rat" or "stool pidgeon."

...he had chivatos like that working for him, his judgment stinks. (Alejandro Sosa, the Bolivian cocaine from the 1983 movie Scarface)

by The Thinker August 04, 2004

juice racket

usury or loan sharking.

The juice racket was always a part of Jimmy the Gent's criminal trade.

by The Thinker July 25, 2004

chocolate city

Washington D.C.

by The Thinker June 21, 2003

rub out

to kill (i.e. to smoke, bump off, whack, ice).

by The Thinker June 21, 2003

gauleiter

1. A party district leader in Nazi Germany who also was a provincial governor. 2. One who is likened to a gauleiter, especially someone who is dictatorial, overbearing, or intolerent of dissent or opposing views.

From the German words gau, meaning district, and leiter, meaning leader.

There are some leaders in a organization who are regular gauleiters.

by The Thinker September 25, 2006

Capo

A boss in an organized crime, typically La Cosa Nostra (Italian-American mob)
caporegime(lieutenant or captain)

by The Thinker June 21, 2003

brownshirt

Nazi, especially a storm trooper (Schutzstaffel, or the SS), often noted for violence, aggression and brutality.

Some police officers behave like brownshirts and thugs.

by The Thinker September 25, 2006