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Position near the top of some organizational structures
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underboss
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__NOTOC__ Underboss (also capo bastone or sotto capo ) is a position within the leadership structure of Sicilian and American Mafia crime families . The underboss is second in command to the boss . The underboss is sometimes a family member, such as a son, ...
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n. An assistant to the boss of a crime family
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n. an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate)
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.