black hand

Definition of Black Hand in English :

1. black hand

a secret terrorist society in the United States early in the 20th century

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Black Hand

noun

1.

a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century

2.

(in 19th-century Spain) an organization of anarchists

1.

a group of Sicilian immigrant blackmailers and terrorists in New York in the early 20th cent.

2.

any similar secret society

n.

A secret society organized for acts of terrorism and blackmail that was active in the United States in the early 1900s.