gangster
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈɡæŋstər/
:
gánster
- She learned that her uncle used to be a gangster before he turned his life around.
- a gangster film
- Jewish gangsters
If you have people with street knowledge and gangsters, Chast told me.
- If you have people with street knowledge and gangsters, Chast told me.
- But this guy is a gangster thick with organised crime.
- He got so angry, he told his fellow gangsters, I'm going to go to Atlanta.
- I'm never going to change a villains mind or a gangster's mind about carrying a knife.
- I think where you have no rules, you have society's gangsters move in, right?
- And now all of a sudden it's not just it's not just gangsters that profit from that stuff.
- We're all a mixture where you have no rules, you have society's gangsters move in, right?
- So no, no, no gangster movies in my list.
- It's not about working gangsters in a group of gangsters.
- Those tethers just go over to the gangsters account instantly.
- Assign Carl the gangster, the gangster author.
Examples
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"The year she met your father," Binzy said, "she was dating a gangster named Larry Ascot."
Fiction book (1996) -
A notorious gangster was apprehended after a lengthy investigation.
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I was shot by a Russian gangster.
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Then we got a gangster here by the name of Bone.
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We nearly got killed by your gangster buddies.
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That's not even to mention the gangster that threatened to kill me today.
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Because Nicky enjoyed being a gangster, and he didn't give a damn who knew it.
Fiction book (1995) -
The police arrested several gangsters involved in drug trafficking.
Synonyms
244
4.9
A violent person who attacks or threatens others
76
8.1
A violent person hired to threaten or hurt others
71
8.9
A young person who does violent street crimes
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5.8
A person who is part of a gang that does illegal things and often uses violence
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7.6
A young person who steals, fights, or causes trouble with a gang
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9.9
A young person who belongs to a street gang or acts tough like gang members
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9.9
A person who joins a criminal gang and often takes part in violent acts
5
8.7
A person who belongs to a secret criminal group that uses violence
3
9.9
A low-level criminal hired to do violent or illegal jobs
Antonyms
How Criminal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gangster comes from the word gang 'a group' and the ending -ster 'a person who belongs'. So a gangster is 'a person in a gang', and the word came to mean someone who works with others to do illegal acts.