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Black Hand
noun
a secret criminal organisation composed of first-generation Italian immigrants to the US US, 1898- The Mafia and the dread Black Hand are the same thing. The black hand was the sign over which the Mafia’s threats were delivered. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 180, 1951
- The Black Hand? You think you can laugh it off? — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 38, 1952
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