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- noun Plural form of
gangster .
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Examples
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Holloway, suspended for one game, said Sunday he regretted using the term "gangsters."
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Calling elected officals gangsters is not acceptable and has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
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Does anyone remember English twin gangsters, the Kray brothers?
Kray Twins' paintings sell for over £12,000 at auction The Nag 2009
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In a sense, the story of the gangsters is connected with the story of the Avengers; the Avengers too act in a way outside the stereotype of Jewish behavior.
A Conversation with Rich Cohen, author of The Avengers: A Jewish War Story 2010
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While many went on to college and careers, others joined Asian youth gangs like the Wah Ching, the V Boys or the Black Dragons, working as hired muscle for older gangsters from the triads, formal organizations with rules and hierarchies dating back to 16th century China.
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Niger President Mamadou Tandja refuses to deal with the MNJ rebels whom he calls gangsters and drug traffickers.
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It’s a through-the looking-glass world, and any hope for ethical clarity from those gangsters is a fool’s errand.
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It’s a through-the looking-glass world, and any hope for ethical clarity from those gangsters is a fool’s errand.
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I don’t think about your culture that says looking like gangsters is hip hop.
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During the time immigrants were fighting for jobs back in the 1800s and early 1900s there were groups of young men called "gangsters" who formed organized crime units and their main job was extortion, murder, organizing gangs, prostitution, gambling, and running bootleg liquor.
Tio Hardiman: Unemployment and the United States Homicide Rate Tio Hardiman 2011
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