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Position near the top of some organizational structures
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underboss
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WordNet
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n. an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate)
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Underboss (ISBN 978-0-06-109664-8) is a biographical book based on the life of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano . The book goes though Gravano's early life up to 1997, which does not cover his re-arrest. The book's author is Peter Maas , who also wrote the book ...
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n. An assistant to the boss of a crime family
Usage examples of underboss.
His best friend in all the world was one Leo Turrin, undercover fed extraordinary and underboss of an eastern US crime family.
But now he had begun to hit the mobsters, with a terror campaign against the lower-level family members--the assassination of an underboss here, a soldier there.
Everyone whom he summoned over that time - the underbosses of his family, as well as the oyabun of the other Tokyo families - was obliged to pass it on their way to meet with him.
Mitsuba was one of Seizo's underbosses and one of his two chief expediters.
In the ensuing weeks, the bodies of various Yamauchi soldiers and underbosses were found, until Katsuodo Kozo had weeded out all his enemies and had consolidated his power.
He believed in katamichi, the method the Yakuza bosses used in the old days to weed out the dross: He allowed his underbosses to jockey among themselves for position.