Careful...if you pronounce Italian, "eye-talian" maybe look both ways like you're telling a black joke first...

The Italian American slang term "goomba" is an informal term for a close friend or associate, especially a male family friend. It can also be used in a disparaging way to refer to a member of an Italian-American crime organization or a gangster. When used by non-Italians, the term is often derogatory and can imply that the subject is involved with criminality or the Mafia.

The term originated from the Southern Italian greeting "cumpà", which was Anglicized as "goombah" or "gumba" when Southern Italian immigrants came to America. The term became popular in the 1950s and 1960s after being used by celebrities like Barbra Streisand and Dean Martin.

The feminine form of the word is "goomar". The Standard Italian equivalent of "goomba" is "compare", which has a similar meaning but can also mean "godfather" or "padrino".

In the northeast we use the term like nuttin ...

Like those eye-talian snow tires...Dago thru ice...dago thru snow, but when dago flat, dago wop, wop, wop...

Hands off my gabagool, ya strunz! 😂😂😂