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

Personally, I prefer Ty$ in get-hyped, full-nasty mode, such as on Saved, in which he pledges eternal bachelorhood, and on Up On the Wall, his admonishment against wannabe LA gangstas.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2015

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

I walked around the karate kickers and the gangstas and pushed open a heavy wooden door.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor