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Molly Maguires definition

Molly Ma·guires (mə gwīrz′)

  1. a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
  2. ☆ a secret society of Irish-American miners in E Pennsylvania (c. 1865-75), which opposed oppressive industrial and social conditions, sometimes with physical force

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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