lupara bianca

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From lupara, a sawn-off shotgun popularly associated with the murders of the mafia organization Cosa Nostra.

Loosely translatable as “white shotgun”.

Noun[edit]

lupara bianca f (plural lupare bianche)

  1. a Mafia killing in which all traces of the body etc. are removed

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