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Noun: Cosa Nostra  'kow-zu'nows-tru
  1. A crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
    - Mafia, Maffia

Type of: crime syndicate, family, mob, syndicate

Encyclopedia: Cosa Nostra