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单词 black hand
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Black Hand

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noun

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.
an anarchistic society in Spain, suppressed in 1883.
a nationalistic society in Serbia, suppressed in 1914.

OTHER WORDS FROM Black Hand

Blackhander, noun

Words nearby Black Hand

black gnat, black gold, black grouse, blackguard, black guillemot, Black Hand, black hat, black haw, Black Hawk, Black Hawk War, blackhead
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Example sentences from the Web for Black Hand

  • We can throttle anything from a black-hand agent to a ghost.

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  • Another letter follows which may also help the reader to a conclusion as to whether such a thing exists as a "Black-Hand" Society.

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  • He will never be reached by the Black-Hand gang without several of them paying with their lives for his.

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British Dictionary definitions for Black Hand

Black Hand

noun

a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
(in 19th-century Spain) an organization of anarchists
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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