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Black Hand

  1. a group of Sicilian immigrant blackmailers and terrorists in New York in the early 20th cent.
  2. any similar secret society

Etymology: < symbol used by group in letters of extortion

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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