An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
mafia, maffia
(noun) any tightly knit group of trusted associates
Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian Mafia
(noun) a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century
Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra
(noun) a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Maffia
Dated form of Mafia.
Source: Wiktionary
Maf"fi*a, Ma"fi*a, n. [It. maffia.]
Definition: A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.