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- ▪ an action or event that causes certain failure for an enterprise
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Sign given by a mafioso boss
The kiss of death is the sign given by a mafioso boss or caporegime that signifies that a member of the crime family has been marked for death, usually as a result of some perceived betrayal. It is unclear how much is based on fact and how much on the imagination of authors, but it remains a cultural meme and appears in literature and films. Wikipedia