Fugazi Definition

Origin of Fugazi

• Origin uncertainFUGAZI ; said to be of Mafia origin, from the Fugazy Continental limousine company in New York City which was owned by William “Bill" Fugazy, due to its cheesy “look like a rich guy" advertisements of the 1970s and 1980s, or its alleged poor business practices,possibly influenced by Italian fu cazzo (“it was shit"). The word was popularized by the film Donnie Brasco (1997), based on the book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (1987) by American former FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone (born 1939) who used the name “Donnie Brasco" as an undercover alias .

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• Origin uncertainFUGAZI ; said to be of Mafia origin, from the Fugazy Continental limousine company in New York City which was owned by William “Bill" Fugazy, due to its cheesy “look like a rich guy" advertisements of the 1970s and 1980s, or its alleged poor business practices,possibly influenced by Italian fu cazzo (“it was shit"). The word was popularized by the film Donnie Brasco (1997), based on the book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (1987) by American former FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone (born 1939) who used the name “Donnie Brasco" as an undercover alias .

  From Wiktionary