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Examples
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A Winchester for ranged work, and an old Italian lupara for clearing varmints out of confined spaces.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Column filed, car to garage, deadline beckons. 2009
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Mancuso wished for a lupara to blast a hole in the wall, or Mike Lahr's chest, but he was a uniformed officer, and he did now have orders from his Commander-in-chief.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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He is quite good with the lupara, especially at close range.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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He is quite good with the lupara, especially at close range.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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In the old country, he was instantly sure, his great-great-grandfather would have leveled his lupara and blown a wide, bloody hole through Rick's chest for that.
The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991
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The research, reported February 23 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, was part of a wider effort to test claims about the mafia's "lupara bianca," or "white shotgun" murders, wherein the subject is known to be dead but a body is never found.
Wired Top Stories Rachel Ehrenberg 2011
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But Vito grew up on the run for his life, his brother and father both murdered by lupara-wielding thugs.
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S.meone whose fate is simply to disappear -- like U.S. Teamsters leader James Hoffa, a presumed gangland victim in 1975 -- is said to have received the lupara bianca (` white lupara ') treatment.
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Informers are despised in many places besides Sicily, but the mafia may dispatch them with a lupara ambush and sometimes with cement overcoats in Manhattan's rivers.
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_lupara_, or _louverie_ (place of wolves), which seems improbable.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus
bilby commented on the word lupara
Heavy shotgun pellets used for hunting wolves. Also, by extension, the gun used to fire them.
September 25, 2011
sionnach commented on the word lupara
Not to be confused with lupara argenta, heavy silver shotgun pellets used for hunting werewolves. Or, as we call them around here, loups-garous.
September 25, 2011