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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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Bulger, 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 2007.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022

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

Bulger's rise to power and eventual flight were chronicled in the book "Black Mass," which was adapted into a 2015 film starring Johnny Depp as the mobster.

From Reuters ● Jun. 25, 2016

Preoccupied with the idea of the Black Mass, Durtal could not keep silent.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

Until the Italian facility opens, Li-Cycle will send black mass produced in Europe to its North American processing facility in New York.

From Reuters ● Aug. 1, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

The Portovesme Hub is expected to have processing capacity of up to 50,000 tonnes to 70,000 tonnes of black mass annually, or the equivalent of up to 36 gigawatt hours of lithium-ion batteries, Li-Cycle added.

From Reuters ● May 9, 2023

The resulting pieces are separated and Li-Cycle then harvests a granular substance, known as black mass, which is processed into its component metals elsewhere.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

The black mass of Ross’s wrongdoing emerged slowly and irrefutably.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright