concrete shoes
Gangster drowning method
Concrete shoes are a method of murder associated with organized crime—encasing someone's feet in concrete and drowning them.
The image appears constantly in mob fiction and jokes about gangster disposal methods: Keep asking questions and you'll be fitted for concrete shoes.
Also called cement shoes or cement overshoes.
- cementCalcium powder binding agent
- heavyOf great mass
- footLeg's lowest part
- vendettaProlonged retaliatory conflict
- mafiaCriminal organization using intimidation
organized crime · mob hit · corpse · river · hitman · racketeering · drowning · anchor · chains · sinking · burden · inevitability · lake · deep six · sleeping with the fishes · stone · aggregate · entrapment
- Mafiamafia, Cosa Nostra, Sicilian Mafia, Five Families, Colombo
- organized crimemafia, mob, the mob, syndicate, crime syndicate
concrete shoesgolden parachute
Lucrative exit agreement
witness protection · get-out-of-jail-free card · lifeline · second chance · reprieve
concrete shoeswings
Limbs for flight
running shoes · walking shoes · seven-league boots · winged sandals · free as a bird
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