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camorra

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Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) is a 1986 Italian crime film directed by Lina Wertmüller . It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival .

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Camorra \Ca*mor"ra\, n. [It.] A secret organization formed at Naples, Italy, early in the 19th century, and used partly for political ends and partly for practicing extortion, violence, etc. -- Ca*mor"rist , n.

Usage examples of camorra.

By the time he was handed the last of his diplomas, Terry Fossino was a high-level Camorra drug operative, making six-figure buys and moving the cash through an intricate system that went through six different banks in five countries before settling in as clean money in a Camorrista account in Rome.

Don of the Naples Camorra, the most powerful of all the Camorristas, he did not control the weather.

Billy Camorra, twenty years old and six-feet-three, draped a lanky leg with garterless sock over his other knee, and began to fabricate a cardboard spitball, fishing around in his pockets for a rubber band.

CAMORRA, slumped grinning in his seat with a long lanky garterless leg draped over the other knee and a quivering rubber band fastened to his forked fingers, put his hand to his nose.

Is there a secret society of colliers, an English Camorra, which is capable of destroying both train and passengers?

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There was, after all, little difference between paying tribute money to the camorra of his homeland or to the Irish thugs of NewYork.