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Zip

nouncommon in dialogue

A Sicilian or Italian Mafioso who is relatively new to the United States.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA Sicilian or Italian Mafioso who is relatively new to the United States.

    The proprietor was a "Zip" — a Sicilian-born mobster — who was running a gambling operation that cut into Godfather Gotti's turf.

Forms

plural
Zips
The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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