gunsel

noun

Definition of gunselnext
slang
as in racketeer

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  1. racketeer
  2. gangster
  3. mobster
  4. hoodlum
  5. thug
  6. gun
  7. triggerman
  8. villain
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
Definition of racketeer
Noun
  • His family told the local press that the man responsible for his death was a gangster from a rival group who had been living in exile in South Africa.
    Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The group’s chairman is John Chan, a former Chinatown gangster convicted of human trafficking and drug smuggling charges in the mid-2000s who has since become influential in New York politics.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • In the new Amazon Prime series, Diamantopoulos’ mobster Mike Byrne teams up with Martindale’s maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry and Guillaume Cyr's security guard Remy Bouchard to pull a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of mobster
Noun
  • However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Definition of hoodlum
Noun
  • The proximate cause of the war crimes chronicled in Han’s novels is South Korea’s succession of authoritarian governments, their soldiers and police; on Jeju Island, these were joined by gangs of right-wing thugs.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, that is Canet playing the paragliding avenger, Franck, who’s trying to free his abducted pregnant wife, Léo (Stéphane Caillard), from a blackmailing thug.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of thug
Noun
  • That interaction led to both men drawing guns, according to deputies, who didn’t provide more details.
    Sara Schilling, Sacramento Bee, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Edgar Maddison Welch got out of his vehicle and pointed a gun at a Kannapolis police officer during a traffic stop Saturday night, the department said in a press release.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of gun
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
Definition of triggerman
Noun
  • Also tossed in are picturesque but gratuitous use of famous tourist landmarks as background, near-superheroic training montages, credible intimate character dynamics, a ruthless villain (Johan Heldenbergh as Vanaken) and action that in the home stretch goes absurdly over-the-top.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
  • And though Young and (especially) the perpetrators of the massacre are clearly the villains of the piece, their past history at least partly explains their choices.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of villain
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“Gunsel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunsel. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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