gangster

• (slang) gangsta

From gang +‎ -ster. First attested in 1884.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæŋ.stə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæŋ(k).stɚ/

gangster (plural gangsters)

1. A member of a criminal or street gang.

   Hyponyms: gang member, gangleader

2. A member of a professional criminal organization (in organized crime): a racketeer.

gangster (third-person singular simple present gangsters, present participle gangstering, simple past and past participle gangstered)

1. To act like a gangster; to commit street crime or run a racket.

gangster (comparative more gangster, superlative most gangster)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Characteristic of a gangster; (especially) admirable and audacious.
   • 2011, Isaiah Washington, Lavaille Lavette, A Man From Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life, New York, N.Y. […]: Center Street, →ISBN, page 121:

     I looked at my team and thought, "Damn, now that was the most gangster move I have ever seen in my life. I think we just strong-armed a government official in Sierra Leone!"

   • 2024 February 12, @Teller_Banks357, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 June 2024:

     Sampling is the most gangsta shit ever. Im finna steal yo life's work and make it into trap music

2. (African-American Vernacular, slang, Internet slang) On friendly terms; cool.

   We put an end to our beef. We're all gangster now.

   • 2016, Janae M. Robinson, Crumbling Down, →ISBN, page 75:

     "Oh, soft ass pretty boy, trying to act all hard for his little girlfriend. Don't he know that we gangsta over here. We don't beef over females. Share and share alike," Corey said, laughing.

   • 2022 May 10, @mr_gh0stly, Twitter‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 June 2024:

     everyone gangsta until NATO starts shipping Burger Kings onto the scene

• “gangsta”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaŋkstɛr]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛŋkstr̩]

gangster m anim (relational adjective gangsterský)

1. gangster

• “gangster”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “gangster”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English gangster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛŋ.stər/

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• Hyphenation: gang‧ster

gangster m (plural gangsters, diminutive gangstertje n)

1. gangster

gangster (not comparable)

1. (slang) cool, awesome

Declension of gangster
uninflected	gangster
inflected	gangster
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		gangster
indefinite	m./f. sing.	gangster
	n. sing.	gangster
	plural	gangster
definite		gangster
partitive		gangsters

From English gangster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡ̊ænɡ̊ster/, [ˈɡ̊æŋɡ̊ster], /ˈɡ̊ɑnɡ̊ster/, [ˈɡ̊ɑŋɡ̊ster]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɡster, -ænɡster
• Hyphenation: gangs‧ter

gangster (genitive gangsteri, partitive gangsterit)

1. gangster (a member of an organized criminal gang)

   Synonym: gängster

Declension of gangster (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		gangster	gangsterid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	gangsteri
genitive			gangsterite
partitive		gangsterit	gangstereid
illative		gangsterisse	gangsteritesse gangstereisse
inessive		gangsteris	gangsterites gangstereis
elative		gangsterist	gangsteritest gangstereist
allative		gangsterile	gangsteritele gangstereile
adessive		gangsteril	gangsteritel gangstereil
ablative		gangsterilt	gangsteritelt gangstereilt
translative		gangsteriks	gangsteriteks gangstereiks
terminative		gangsterini	gangsteriteni
essive		gangsterina	gangsteritena
abessive		gangsterita	gangsteriteta
comitative		gangsteriga	gangsteritega

• gangster in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “gangster”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃ɡ.stɛʁ/

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gangster m (plural gangsters)

1. gangster

   Hypernym: malfaiteur

• → Romanian: gangster

• “gangster” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “gangster” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “gangster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English gangster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛns.ter/, /ˈɡans.ter/, /ˈɡɛnɡs.ter/, /ˈɡanɡs.ter/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛnster, -anster, -ɛnɡster, -anɡster
• Hyphenation: gàng‧ster

gangster m or f by sense (invariable)

1. gangster

• gangsterismo
• gangsteristico

Borrowed from English gangster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaŋ.kstɛr/

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• Rhymes: -aŋkstɛr
• Syllabification: gan‧gster

gangster m pers (female equivalent gangsterka)

1. gangster (gang member)

• gangster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gangster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

gangster m or f by sense (plural gangsters)

1. alternative spelling of gângster

Borrowed from French gangster.

gangster m (plural gangsteri)

1. gangster

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎnɡster/
• Hyphenation: gang‧ster

gàngster m anim (Cyrillic spelling га̀нгстер)

1. gangster

gangster m (plural gangsteres)

1. alternative spelling of gángster

Borrowed from English gangster. Attested since 1927.

gangster c

1. a gangster

• gangsterrap

• gangster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gangster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Internationalism (see English gangster).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑŋˈstæɾ/, /ɡeŋˈstæɾ/
• Rhymes: -æɾ

gangster (definite accusative gangsteri, plural gangsterler)