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
  • The 20th-century Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is under siege from a greedy developer (James Bond star Timothy Dalton) and his thugs in the new season.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
  • But authorities now believe the most heinous acts were the handiwork of a one-time nursing student from Puerto Rico who evolved over a decade from teenage burglar to drug trafficker to rampaging thug.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 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
  • Apopka Police Department officers responded around 9 a.m. to Sutton’s home after his wife contacted the agency and said her husband attempted to choke her and had a gun.
    Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 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
  • Hackman was among the most accomplished actors of his generation, appearing as villains, heroes and antiheroes in dozens of dramas, comedies and action films from the 1960s until his retirement in the early 2000s.
    SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • There are spells, curses, vendettas, a twist villain, giant dragons who turn into humanoid warriors and many other creatures populating the world of this gargantuan feat of eye-popping computer animation.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Gunsel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunsel. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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