gang-banger

British  

noun

1. slang a member of a street gang

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Other Word Forms

• gang-banging noun

Example Sentences

But even as he sought to undo the political damage, Biden courted further backlash when he spoke, inartfully, of a more broad-minded society in which people realize the “kid in the hoodie might be the next poet laureate and not a gang-banger.”

From Los Angeles Times

“If they cheated on this, where it’s an open-and-shut case, what do they do when there’s a gang-banger?”

From Los Angeles Times

And sometimes it’s not even a gang-banger in the vacant apartments—you get kids who use the vacant apartments as their clubhouse, like kids in the suburbs would use a tree house.

From Literature

“You shoot a gang-banger, no-one cares; you shoot a dog, you’re gonna be all over the news,” said Anna Morrison-Ricordati, a Chicago attorney who focuses on animal law.

From Time

He was not a known drug dealer, not a gang-banger.

From Los Angeles Times