The Commission: the ruling body of the Cosa Nostra, consisting of nine to twelve bosses of crime families.
Connected: an associate of a made Mafia member.
Consigliere: an adviser.
Contract: an assignment to murder.
Cooler: a stacked deck of cards.
Cool-off Man: accomplice in a crooked gambling game who calms down a heavy looser.
Cop: to steal.
Cosa Nostra: close-knit criminal society whose members are of Italian-Sicilian ethnic origin only; sometimes called the Mafia, which was its Sicilian antecedent.
Crew: a group of criminals in the Mafia who work together closely.
Crime Family: a unit of Cosa Nostra operating in a specific territory, composed of men tied together by loyalty to their crime boss and sometimes by actual blood relationship.
