borgata
/bɔːˈɡɑːtə
/noun (plural borgatas or borgate) US
An organized branch of the Mafia.If only you knew the real us, the borgata family, I thought to myself....
- But gathered there was the vast majority of bosses of the borgatas.
- His first full-length novel dealing with the world of the borgate, published in 1955, saw him officially charged with offences to public decency.
Origin
1960s: Italian, 'district, village'.
- numbedness
- number
- number 6
- numberable
- number-average
- number board
- number cloth
- number-crunch
- number cruncher
- number crunching
- numbered account
- numbered company
- number eight
- number-engaged
- numberer
- number form
- numberful
- numberless
- number line
- number-man
- number one
- number opera
- numberous
- number plate
- number portability