Camorrista

[ Italian kah-mawr-rees-tah ]

noun

, plural Ca·mor·ris·ti [kah-maw, r, -, rees, -tee].

1. a member of the Camorra of Italy.
2. (lowercase) a member of a society or group resembling the Camorra.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Camorrista¹

From Italian, dating back to 1860–65; Camorra, -ist

Example Sentences

As a Camorrista, her father dealt mostly in contraband cigarettes; her mother was a homemaker.

From Washington Post

He was Antonio Esposito, a fellow Camorrista who had been a witness only months earlier to the signing of her marriage papers to another Mafioso, Pasquale Simonetti.

From Washington Post

This is a moral environment in which your sister, and not you, may have to pay for your mistake; one in which a don acquires respect by refusing to help convict a fellow Camorrista who murdered his son by impaling him.

From New York Times

Once we saw a Camorrista drowned in milk, in a mozzarella vat.

From The Guardian

But for me it was unthinkable to be a Camorrista leader at 15.

From The Guardian