blackhander

noun

Definition of blackhandernext
as in gangster

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  1. gangster
  2. mobster
  3. mafioso
  4. hoodlum
Noun
  • Many Japanese action films are too much about fantasy, either Yakuza [gangsters] or serial killers.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Liam Neeson, in perhaps his final appearance in an action film, portrays a gangster trying to make amends.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • Then, there was Tommy Heffernan’s Body Buddies, a dark comedy where a wedding photographer and a mobster keep a body hidden in the middle of an engagement shoot.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Another tweet depicted John Wick, Keanu Reeves' fictional movie character who goes on a killing spree after his beloved dog is killed by a mobster, and warned that denizens of the web may react similarly.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of mobster
Noun
  • The top mafioso, convicted of masterminding some of Italy’s most heinous slayings — including the killings of prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino — subsequently died in September of last year in a maximum-security prison.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Lilyhammer a fish-out-of-water series set in Lillehammer, Norway featuring ex-Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt as a mafioso on witness protection was the streamer’s first entry into the original series business.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of mafioso
Noun
  • While Muhammad Ali made his professional boxing comeback with a win against Jerry Quarry at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium on October 26, 1970, a group of hoodlums robbed the Black Mafia of more than $1 million in cash and jewelry at a nearby after-party.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Chicago Crime Commission’s president was outraged when an Indiana prosecutor posed for a newspaper photographer with his arm around Dillinger earlier in 1934 while the hoodlum awaited trial for killing a police officer during a bank robbery.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2024
Definition of hoodlum
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