gunsel

slang

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Noun
  • Oh yeah, this relationship with this 38-year-old racketeer is so beautiful.
    Michael Cuby, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
  • While President Herbert Hoover had waged a war against kidnappers and racketeers, Roosevelt amplified the effort dramatically, pushed it in new directions, and overcame the jurisdictional, racial, partisan, and class divisions that had previously obstructed the law-and-order state.
    Anthony Gregory / Made by History, TIME, 23 July 2024
Noun
  • In her ethnographic study of Jamaican gangs, Jaffe argues against seeing the neighborhood strongmen—or dons—as primarily violent, exploitative gangsters.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social drama and leavens both with a dash of unexpected humor.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors are basing their case against Rosario on testimony by Russo, Zummo and Rubino — all mobsters looking to avoid lengthy prison sentences, Rosario’s defense attorney Louis Freeman told the jury.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • James Gandolfini played mobster Tony Soprano for all six seasons of The Sopranos.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • When Jennifer Lawrence isn’t full-frontally beating the bejesus out of insouciant hoodlums, that is.
    Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025
  • However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Image In so many ways, Jan. 6 had become part of his brand — a brand in which an attack on the symbol of American democracy became a defense of that same democracy: a blow against political thugs and closet communists, deep-state plots and an unjust justice system.
    Dan Barry, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The investigation leads Cole into an ugly world of red-neck thugs and disappeared girls.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bennett heard a knock at his door on Feb. 16, 2023, and grabbed a gun.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The Rust accident occurred on Oct. 27, 2021, when a prop gun Baldwin was holding went off on the set of the Western film and killed Hutchins, 42.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Joe Budden is skeptical that Tory Lanez was the triggerman with intentions of shooting Megan Thee Stallion during the dispute in 2020 that led to the Canadian singer being sentenced to a decade behind bars.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2024
  • One suspect has been charged but the triggerman is still being sought, as is the gunman who fatally shot another man seven minutes earlier a few blocks away.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
Noun
  • This shortcoming extends to its assortment of villains who, despite including celebrity appearances like AEW wrestler Samoa Joe, fail to leave a memorable impression beyond being yet another obstacle on the way to the end credits.
    Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
  • More news: Warner Bros Delays 'The Batman 2' For a Third Time One of Batman's biggest foes is Clayface, a villain who can mold his body into a multitude of devastating shapes.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Gunsel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunsel. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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