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A secret society in Naples notorious for violence and blackmail
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camorra
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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.
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The Camorra is an Italian Mafia -type crime syndicate , or secret society , which arose in the region of Campania and its capital Naples . It is one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations in Italy, dating back to the 16th century. Unlike the pyramidal ...
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.