gangland

John Buntin, The New York Times Magazine A plan for peace in gangland.

As for that phone call—in the end, Alvarez-Marquez didn't end up helping the gangland matriarch get into the country.

Among people of his own kind this youth, Jimmie McGowan, was known as the quickest trigger in all gangland.

Then from the blasphemous mouth of the king of gangland there came a shriek of awful fear.