black hand
1black-hand — black hand·er; …
2Black Hand — (engl.: „Schwarze Hand“) bezeichnet: eine spezielle Ausführungform der Erpressung; siehe Black Hand (Erpressung) die Black Hand Gang, Erpresserbande in New York City um die 1900er Jahrhundertwende die Schwarze Hand, serbische Offiziers… …
3Black Hand — “Black Hand” (in Serbo Croatian Crna Ruka ) was the byname of the secret Serbian organization Union or Death ( Ujedinjenje Ili Smrt). In the early twentieth century, radical nationalist societies operated in Serbia and tried to undermine the… …
4Black Hand — [A trans. of Sp. mano negra.] 1. A Spanish anarchistic society, many of the members of which were imprisoned in 1883. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. A lawless or blackmailing secret society, esp. among Italians. [U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
5Black Hand — Italian immigrant secret society in U.S., 1904; earlier a Spanish anarchist society, both from the warning mark they displayed to potential victims …
6Black Hand — Black′ Hand′ n. why a secret criminal group organized in Italy practicing blackmail and violence …
7Black Hand — n. [< symbol used by group in letters of extortion] 1. a group of Sicilian immigrant blackmailers and terrorists in New York in the early 20th cent. 2. any similar secret society …
8Black Hand — For other uses, see Black Hand (disambiguation). Unification or Death / Black Hand Black Hand seal Motto Unification or Death; Unity or Death; Death of Tyranny! Formation …
9Black Hand — noun a secret terrorist society in the United States early in the 20th century • Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act • Hypernyms: ↑organized crime, ↑gangland, ↑gangdom * * * noun …
10Black Hand — Blackhander, n. 1. 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. 2. an anarchistic society in Spain,… …
