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  Black Mass

  noun

  a blasphemous ceremony mocking the Christian Mass, especially one by an alleged worshiper of Satan.
• black mass
  black mass

  noun

  (sometimes capitals) a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic

Black Mass

American  

Or black mass

noun

1. a blasphemous ceremony mocking the Christian Mass, especially one by an alleged worshiper of Satan.

2. a Requiem Mass.

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black mass British  

noun

1. (sometimes capitals) a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic

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Etymology

Origin of Black Mass

First recorded in 1890–95

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The former leader of South Boston's Winter Hill gang inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2018

Cooper, a former actor, directed Jeff Bridges to an Academy Award in "Crazy Heart" and Johnny Depp to one of his best performances in "Black Mass."

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

Despite an Oscar nomination for 2015’s Black Mass, Depp has been plagued by a string of commercial and critical failures, including Mortdecai, Transcendence and The Lone Ranger.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2017

"Black Mass," a book on Bulger's rise to power and eventual flight, was turned into a 2015 film starring Johnny Depp as the gangster.

From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2016

The only curious book he showed me was an office of the Black Mass on parchment.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

Those materials can be recovered from black mass through recycling processes such as chemical processing or smelting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

That black mass is then processed to make battery-grade material for the battery’s cathode.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

A machine then shreds the packs to separate plastic, aluminum and copper from a black mass that contains crucial ingredients such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and graphite.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2023

The company has developed a network of facilities in Arizona, Alabama and Ontario that produce black mass, which is essentially shredded battery parts.

From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2023

The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding