Luigi
proper nounverbattested in dialogue
- //luˈiːd͡ʒi//
A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.
proper noun
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A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.
A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile.
As the senior mafia padrone, Luigi Sansone used his four-man mafia team to start collections from Sicilian businesses on the Hill.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel, is now charged with murder, according to court documents.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Luigi. Doublet of Ludovico, Luis, Ludwig, and other cognates. The verb sense emerged shortly after the December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the accused is Luigi Mangione.
verb
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To assassinate.
ProPublica was working on this story before UHC’s CEO got Luigied:
I mean, some probably think that Luiging people might be fine?
So uh, basically, there's some more CEOs that need to be Luigied
Do you think if someone was going to "Luigi him", a kid on his shoulders would stop it?
Forms
- past tense
- Luigied
- past participle
- Luigied
- present participle
- Luiging
- third person singular
- Luigis
Luigi · A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.
Luis · A male given name from Spanish.Luka · A male given name from the Slavic languages, of modern usage.Lukas · A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Lucas.