gangster
Americannoun
noun
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Years later, he told a grand jury: “My primary duties were to keep down these gangster killings and try to keep some of these rough guys under control.”
From Los Angeles Times
In clipped, fast-moving scenes, Mr. Sayles shifts between the boardroom and the assembly line, and radiates out to develop the roles of attendant characters, from journalists to labor activists to gangsters and rumrunners.
There is the It Club, owned by a Black gangster and visited by everyone from Miles to Coltrane to Monk, who recorded an album there.
From Los Angeles Times
There may have been some male suitors but never any who were gangsters.
From Los Angeles Times
Mueenuddin, whose gift for satire shines whether he’s describing society matrons or gangsters, never loses sight of his theme: How do any of us ever manage to justify our treatment of the underserved?
From Los Angeles Times
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