gangstern.
/ˈɡaŋstə/, U.S. /ˈɡæŋstər/ Originally U.S.
1.
a. A member of a criminal gang, esp. one involved in organized crime. Also in extended use: a person who uses illegal means (esp. violence and intimidation) to further his or her ends. Cf. gang n. 8c, mobster n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > criminality > criminal person > [noun] > gang > member of
gangster1884
gangsman1912
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > gangster
gangster1884
gangman1912
gangsman1912
mobster1917
racketeer1924
gangbanger1930
bandit1935
hot rod1936
goodfellow1963
G1989
1884 Cincinnati Commercial Gaz. 13 Oct. 4/5 They have a candidate for the Presidency, and his name is Grover Cleveland, the creature of a combination of gangsters and cranks.
1887 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 21 Oct. 3/6 To the mind's eye of the once defiant gangster the walls of Joliet loom ever more plainly in view.
1896 Columbus (Ohio) Evening Disp. 10 Apr. 4/2 The gangster may play all sorts of pranks with the ballot box, but in its own good time the latter will get even by kicking the gangster into the gutter.
1928 Daily Express 31 July 8/2 Finding the three Brighton gangsters guilty of murder.
1936 Amer. Speech 11 117 Big-time gangsters, racketeers, and the criminal aristocrats do not use narcotics.
1970 C. Angoff Winter Twilight x. 267 Stalin was a gangster, whose word was worthless, whose sole aim was to rule with an iron hand.
2011 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 21/1 Local police know all of the families on their beat and regularly drop in on potential troublemakers and yakuza gangsters.
b. A member of an urban territorial gang (gang n. 8d). Cf. gangsta n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > gangster > specific
liberal1638
liberty boy1733
gang leader1775
Camorrist1863
mafioso1875
gangster1900
amalaita1908
dada1917
paesanoa1930
skolly1934
Mafiaist1948
oyabun1948
yakuza1964
mafiosa1965
goombah1968
rascal1978
yardie1986
new jack1988
lynch man2004
1900 Chicago Tribune 22 Aug. 3/2 He stole other things, and his fellow-gangsters looked on, listened, and admired—and sometimes assisted.
1914 Catholic Educ. Assoc. Bull. Nov. 212 Gangsters.—We have alluded to the street gangs and the evils they lead up to.
1978 E. Anderson Place on Corner i. 28 He ain't nothing but a jive-time gangster. Just a li'l hustler who'd sell his own momma to get over.
1988 Los Angeles Sentinel 14 Apr. a3/3 The ‘glorification’ of gang warfare is also an issue being brought to reformed gangster Ice-T.
2003 T. White Foxy-T 18 What if someone come in like some schoolboy gangster what has a got a knife or whatever.
2. A foreman or member of a gang of workers. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > overseer or foreman
stewarda1400
surveyorc1440
supervisorc1454
overlookera1513
workmaster1525
supervisora1529
foreman1574
superintendent1575
overman1606
headman1725
overseer1766
gang leader1775
hagmaster1797
maistry1798
gangsman1803
kangany1817
capataz1826
gangman1830
ganger1836
gaffer1841
gang boss1863
ramrod1881
charge-man1885
mandor1885
captain1886
overganger1887
ephor1890
pusher1901
gangster1913
line manager1960
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > gang of > member of gang
gangman1830
gangster1913
snipe1918
1913 Amer. City & Country 8 429/2 The holidays of the workmen are six working days with pay and for gangsters and foremen 10 days with pay.
1927 Daily Express 20 June 1/5 Gangsters followed with new ballast and new track.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive and appositive.
ΚΠ
1894 Chicago Tribune 2 Apr. 5/1 (headline) Good citizenship demands that gangster candidates should be snowed under at the polls.
1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iii. xiv. 260 Questionable massage parlors and hotels..are veritable ‘crime nests’, and ‘playgrounds’ for the city's gangster gunmen.
1928 Time 9 July 14 In the old days it was a mark of distinction to be seen at gangster funerals.
1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 275 With..the shadow of influential gangster-politicians lifted.
1948 F. R. Leavis Great Trad. i. 4 One applauds the determination to explode the gangster-hero.
2004 P. Willetts in Slightly Foxed Autumn 80 A flamboyant costume combining fin-de-siècle foppishness with gangster chic.
b. attributive. Designating a film, novel, etc., centring on the activities of (real or fictional) gangsters; designating such works as a genre.
ΚΠ
1925 N.Y. Times 25 Oct. viii. 5/8 Mary Pickford is delightful in her east side gangster story, ‘Little Annie Rooney’.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle x. 253 Kind of tough and ugly he looks, like something out of a gangster film.
1976 D. Daiches in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 275 The characteristics of a Chicago gangster tale.
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 171 Being on the run was like being in a B-grade gangster movie.
2000 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 31/1 Not since..The Godfather reinvented the gangster genre in the early seventies have there been so many wiseguys on screen.
C2. Instrumental, as gangster-ridden, gangster-run, etc.
ΚΠ
1929 Chicago Tribune 8 Mar. 14/2 The community..found itself gangster ridden and the gunmen have steadily increased their scope of activity.
1942 Time 17 Aug. 50 Via Hollywood, they believed in gangster-ruled cities and an all-cowboy West.
1961 K. Rexroth in Metronome May 21/2 I had to work till 4 AM, picking up casuals in gangster-run joints.
1980 A. Fried Rise & Fall of Jewish Gangster in Amer. vi. 286 [He] served as intermediary between gangster-led unions and business.
2006 R. Osborne Civilization xv. 390 A tale of decent men and women triumphing over hardship in wagon trains or gangster-ridden streets.
C3.
gangster rap n. = gangsta rap n. at gangsta n. and adj. Compounds.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music
a cappella1905
soundclash1925
marabi1933
doo-wop1958
filk1959
folk-rock1963
Liverpool sound1963
Mersey beat1963
Mersey sound1963
surf music1963
malombo1964
mbaqanga1964
easy listening1965
disco music1966
Motown1966
boogaloo1967
power pop1967
psychedelia1967
yé-yé1967
agitpop1968
bubblegum1968
Tamla Motown1968
Tex-Mex1968
downtempo1969
taarab1969
thrash1969
world music1969
funk1970
MOR1970
tropicalism1970
Afrobeat1971
electro-pop1971
post-rock1971
techno-pop1971
Tropicalia1971
tropicalismo1971
disco1972
Krautrock1972
schlager1973
Afropop1974
punk funk1974
disco funk1975
Europop1976
mgqashiyo1976
P-funk1976
funkadelia1977
karaoke music1977
alternative music1978
hardcore1978
psychobilly1978
punkabilly1978
R&B1978
cowpunk1979
dangdut1979
hip-hop1979
Northern Soul1979
rap1979
rapping1979
jit1980
trance1980
benga1981
New Romanticism1981
post-punk1981
rap music1981
scratch1982
scratch-music1982
synth-pop1982
electro1983
garage1983
Latin1983
Philly1983
New Age1984
New Age music1985
ambient1986
Britpop1986
gangster rap1986
house1986
house music1986
mbalax1986
rai1986
trot1986
zouk1986
bhangra1987
garage1987
hip-house1987
new school1987
old school1987
thrashcore1987
acid1988
acid house1988
acid jazz1988
ambience1988
Cantopop1988
dance1988
deep house1988
industrial1988
swingbeat1988
techno1988
dream pop1989
gangsta rap1989
multiculti1989
new jack swing1989
noise-pop1989
rave1989
Tejano1989
breakbeat1990
chill-out music1990
indie1990
new jack1990
new jill swing1990
noisecore1990
baggy1991
drum and bass1991
gangsta1991
handbag house1991
hip-pop1991
loungecore1991
psychedelic trance1991
shoegazing1991
slowcore1991
techno-house1991
gabba1992
jungle1992
sadcore1992
UK garage1992
darkcore1993
dark side1993
electronica1993
G-funk1993
sampladelia1994
trip hop1994
break1996
psy-trance1996
nu skool1997
folktronica1999
dubstep2002
Bongo Flava2003
grime2003
Bongo2004
singeli2015
1986 Spin May 40/2 This month: angry and horny rock from the Midwest, the ultimate gangster rap record, and utter nonsense from the hip-hopping suburbs.
1998 G. Linehan & A. Matthews Are you Right there, Father Ted? (penultimate draft) in Father Ted (1999) 263/1 No, I am sorry, but there is nothing in gangster rap that appeals to me. It's just noise. Now maybe some of the West-Coast rappers, some of the lighter stuff like DJ Jazzy Jeff.
2003 T. Souvignier World of DJs & Turntable Cuture iv. 138 Although they had precursors such as Ice-T, BDP, and Schooly D, it was NWA that established gangster rap as the dominant hip-hop sound.
gangster rapper n. = gangsta rapper n. at gangsta n. and adj. Compounds.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > pop musician > types of
hard rocker1942
bebopper1946
skiffler1948
bopper1951
rock 'n' roller1955
rockabilly1956
rock star1957
rocker1958
rock idol1958
rockster1960
funkster1963
country rocker1964
punk rocker1972
punk1976
punkster1976
cock-rocker1977
MC1979
rapper1979
thrasher1979
New Romantic1980
prog rocker1980
neo-punk1981
pomp rocker1981
rapster1981
rockist1981
hip-hopper1982
scratcher1982
skanker1983
pop tart1984
trash rocker1984
techno-head1985
Goth1986
Britpopper1989
gangsta1989
gangster rapper1989
popstrel1989
gangsta rapper1990
house-head1990
grunger1991
shoegazer1991
junglist1992
trip-hopper1993
1989 Los Angeles Times 24 Dec. (Calendar section) 76/2 Ice-T... L.A.'s original gangster rapper crosses the Orange Curtain.
1995 Source Feb. 46/2 Every gangster rapper that's spittin' game out there sayin' somethin' that ain't nobody heard before is America's nightmare.
2001 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 1 Feb. Their brand of extreme, in-your-face work educated an entire generation of heavy metal fans and gangster rappers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1884- to get stoned
- to get straight
- to get stuck in
- to get stuck in one's head
- to get stuck into
- to get surety
- to get thank
- to get that way
- to get the advantage of
- to get the back of
- to get the bad end of the stick
- to get the bag
- to get the best of
- to get the best out of
- to get the better end of
- to get the better end of the staff
- to get the better hand
- to get the better of
- to get the big bird
- to get the bird
- to get the book
- to get the boot
- to get the business
- to get the catch
- to get the chop or chopper