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  2. Glossary of Mafia-related words - Wikipedia

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    goomar or goomah: Americanized form of comare, a Mafia mistress. goombah: an associate, especially a senior member of a criminal gang. heavy: packed, carrying a weapon. hit: to murder; also see whack. initiation or induction: becoming a made man. juice: the interest paid to a loan shark for the loan; also see vig.

  3. List of occult terms - Wikipedia

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    Abracadabra, an ancient word in an unknown language popularly carved onto amulets in antiquity. Abramelin oil. Acultomancy, divination by the use of needles. Adept. Aeon (Thelema) Aeromancy. Air (classical element), one of the four classical elements that play a role in alchemy. Agalmatomancy. Agartha, a land at the center of the Earth.

  4. List of slang terms for federal agents - Wikipedia

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    A term used in some post-soviet countries to refer to a member of the secret police. Mukhabarat, Al-Amn: Arabic terms for "intelligence" and "security", the former is mainly used for foreign intelligence whereas the latter is used for domestic intelligence. Moscas Border Patrol Police. [11] Narc, Nark, Narq An informant or an undercover DEA ...

  5. Magic word - Wikipedia

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    Magic word. Magic words are phrases used in fantasy fiction or by stage magicians. Frequently such words are presented as being part of a divine, adamic, or other secret or empowered language. Certain comic book heroes use magic words to activate their powers. Magic words are also used as Easter eggs or cheats in computer games, other software ...

  6. Caesar cipher - Wikipedia

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    Caesar cipher. The action of a Caesar cipher is to replace each plaintext letter with a different one a fixed number of places down the alphabet. The cipher illustrated here uses a left shift of 3, so that (for example) each occurrence of E in the plaintext becomes B in the ciphertext. In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's ...

  7. List of Generation Z slang - Wikipedia

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    List of Generation Z slang. Appearance. "If You Know You Know" redirects here. For the Pusha T song, see If You Know You Know (song). The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world.

  8. Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The sources of the rituals, titles and even the name of KKK may be found in antebellum college fraternities and secret societies such as the Kuklos Adelphon. [1] Earlier source material however states, "The ceremony of initiation was borrowed from some of the features of the introduction of candidates of the long defunct Sons of Malta and other like societies, and was calculated to, and did ...

  9. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    Anda. An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari. A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız.