gangsta
noun
a member of an urban street gang.
gangstas
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pluralof gangsta.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“At odd hours of the night, Roscoe’s hops with hip-hop gangstas and old-time crooners, funkateers and exponents of new-jack swing, athletes and bodyguards,” Gold wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Donning bathrobe and slippers, he devotes a verse to hustlers and gangstas while moving in synchronized step with dancers down a hotel hallway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2016
Hip-hop heads of a certain age — call us OGs, original gangstas — remember where we were when N.W.A.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2015
But alongside Cole, Drake might well be spearheading a fresh crop of post-thug rap artists who may continue the trend set by Kanye West: commercially outplaying the gangstas.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2011
I walked around the karate kickers and the gangstas and pushed open a heavy wooden door.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
