Consigliere....what Mafia Ranking is that?....

Capo Crimini/capo de tutti capi: boss of bosses - this is the highest ranking family member

Consigliere: advisor/family counselor


Capo Bastone: underboss, 2nd in command - usually first in line to become acting boss if the boss dies or goes to prison.


Contabile: financial advisor


Caporegime or Capodecima: lieutenant, typically heads a faction of 10 or more soldiers comprising a crew


Sgarrista: a foot soldier who carries out day to day business of the family. A "made" member of the mafia


Piciotto: lower-ranking soldiers; enforcers. Also known in the streets as the "button man"


Giovane D'Honore: Mafia associate, typically a rank of a non-Sicilian or non-Italian member.

Soprano's Lingo (Italian Mafia Words)

- Administration: The top members of the Family, usually composed of the boss, underboss, and consigliere.
- Associate: At first you will work for the Family as an associate. Only if you prove yourself will you be sworn in as a full member.
- Babbo: A mafia term for an underling who is considered to be useless – you don't want to be one of these or your days may be numbered.
- Big earner: Mafia lingo for someone who makes a lot of money for the family.
- Boss: The head of the Family (the Don). The Mafia boss has the ultimate say in all important decisions.
- Broken: When a member is demoted in rank.
- Buttlegging: Bootlegging untaxed cigarettes.
- Button: A Mafia ‘soldier’.
- Capo: A Captain in the family.
- Capo di tutti capi: The Mafia boss of the strongest Family - highest of all mafia ranks.
- Cleaning: Covering your tracks to ensure that you’re not being followed.
- Clip: This means to eliminate someone.
- Clock: To keep a person under surveillance.
- Comare: A common term for a woman that they may be dating outside of marriage - a Mafia mistress

- Compare: Croney, close pal. Literally "Godfather" in Italian.
- Consigliere: The counsellor to the boss.
- Contract: Murder assignment.
- Cosa Nostra: Italian for "this thing is ours".
- Crew: A body of soldiers assigned to a capo.
- Cugine: A young ambitious gangster who wants to climb the ranks of power.
- Double-decker coffin: A coffin, which has a secret lower compartment used to dispose of a victim.

- Earner: One who generates income for a Mafia family.
- Enforcer: A member of the Family entrusted to ensuring fulfilment of deals by threats and if necessary killing.

- Fanabala: Italian-American dialect, morphed over the years from, "Va Fa Napoli" which literally mean, "go to Naples" but in the vernacular "go to hell".
- Fanook: Derived from "finocchio", a derogatory term for homosexual.

- Friend of mine: How a third party is introduced whom is not a member of the family but can be vouched for.
- Friend of ours: Introduction of one made member to another.
- Gabagool: Gabagool is slang for capicola, a thinly sliced Italian luncheon meat, taken from the shoulder (collo) and neck (capo - head) of a pig.

- Ice: This is yet another request for you to kill someone.

- Juice: The interest paid on a loan.
- Large: A grand, one thousand. "He owes me fifty large!" means ($50,000.00).
- Madonn': Madonna, common expression meaning holy smoke, holy cow, something said when surprised.

- Make a marriage: To bring two parties together to "do some business"

- Oobatz: Crazy.
- Omertá: The code of silence you have to swear when you join the Family.

- Piece: A firearm or gun.
- Pinched: To be arrested.
- Rat: A member who violates the Omertá.
- Shylock: A person who lends money at an extortionate rate of interest.

- Skim: Money taken that is not reported to the IRS.
- Skipper: A Captain or Capo.
- Turban: "Give him a turban." Means to crack his head open.
- Vig: Italian Mafia lingo for the interest paid to a loan shark for a loan. Usually 2 points or 2%.

- Whack: To murder someone.
- Young Turk: Mob term for a young defiant Mafia member.
- Zips: A derogatory Mafia term American Mafiosi's use for the Sicilian Mafiosi.

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