YAKUZA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yakuza mean? 

• YAKUZA (noun)
  The noun YAKUZA has 2 senses:

1. a Japanese gangster

2. organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises

  Familiarity information: YAKUZA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YAKUZA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Japanese gangster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("yakuza" is a kind of...):

gangster; mobster (a criminal who is a member of gang)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("yakuza" is a kind of...):

gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)