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Meanings of yakuza in English
Members of traditional transnational organized crime syndicates in Japan.
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Usage of yakuza in English
1
Now Batou grappled with the yakuza, trying to free his gun hand.
2
The yakuza stood at a careful distance from her, weapons still out.
3
The Major spotted another yakuza pulling a pin out of a grenade.
4
You don't go back to the yakuza with half a contract fulfilled.
5
Not the yakuza, not the First Families, not even the fucking Envoys.
6
The others, the yakuza henchman's included, were standard, state installed product.
7
In the barroom, a yakuza armed with two guns gave an attack yell.
8
Not a passing reference to his evident membership of the yakuza.
9
Let me tell you, compared to these Chinese gangsters, Japanese yakuza are sweethearts.
10
Why would the yakuza be interested in a biotech weapon three centuries old.
11
But he was yakuza, and in the end it's all face with them.
12
The yakuza often used hanafuda in their illicit gambling halls.
13
The old-style yakuza were funny about that sort of thing.
14
He had some influence with several people with yakuza connections.
15
The haiduci don't have the ethical discipline of the yakuza.
16
It was the names, the whiff of authentic yakuza clout.
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