lupara bianca

Italian

Etymology

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

Loosely translatable as “white shotgun”.

Noun

lupara bianca f (plural lupare bianche)

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

See also

• mafia

Further reading

• Lupara bianca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it