Black Hand
Americannoun
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Italian La Mano Nera. any of various secret criminal groups organized in Italy and operating in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, practicing blackmail and violence.
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an anarchistic society in Spain, suppressed in 1883.
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a nationalistic society in Serbia, suppressed in 1914.
noun
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a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
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(in 19th-century Spain) an organization of anarchists
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They belonged to an organization called the Black Hand.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
These, we are assured, are “desperate men,” but not even the cleverest of the Black Hand gang is a match for the steamroller once the latter, with extraordinarily quick perception, has detected his true nature.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Charlie Russell was a playwright, too, best known for his 1969 piece “Five on the Black Hand Side,” which became a popular Blaxploitation-era film.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2020
Sam Jary, winemaker and owner of Penrith’s Black Hand Wine shop, argues that the efficacy of biodynamic growing is self-evident.
From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2017
‘Yes, He has only four on the Black Hand, but they are enough,’ said Gollum shuddering.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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