It depends how it's used. The Mafia is often assumed to be the italian mafia, but a mafia is any group of people that work together in unpolitical ways.
There are many small mafias popping up around the country
by justarandom August 5, 2005
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ey Pizano! Gimme da pizza pie or else I break-ah your legs ah
by rob March 13, 2004
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a word that came out of the arabic language in sicily.mostly consisting in america of half and quater sicilians at the time who were in the mafia. same thing with the famous people who are " sicilian" most of them are half or quarter.
billyio:hi
jonny: haha ure name sounds italian!
billyio:yes its a rare name from italy x o xo
johnny:are u in the mafia
billyio:no no im from tuscany i leave that for sicilia......im not ignorant :
jonny: hay!!!
by nnininiaa September 1, 2006
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LOL 'to kill in the french style'

Dont you mean to klill in italian style?
by Anonymous August 14, 2003
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it stands for "mother and fathers (of the) italian association

the biggest association in the mob which a lot of people think is cool because they have no one else to idolize even though the mobsters commit horrible crimes.

It now can be used as a synonym for the mob, because you don't even have to be italian to say you're part of a mafia.
I am in the mafia...don't cross me or you'll wake up in your bed in a huge puddle of blood and a horses head that was chopped off.
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I quit playing mafia after 1 mission cuz that game sucked ass.
by cartman5000 July 25, 2004
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a guy who drives a 'food van' with freezer in the back (to store bodies) computer to store data (on dead bodies) smokes cigars, has friends in the mountains...
my dad and his family
by branded- February 9, 2004
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