gangster

See also gángster

English

Etymology

Circa 1895, gang +‎ -ster.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡæŋstə/

Noun

gangster (plural gangsters)

1. A member of a criminal or street gang.
2. A member of a professional criminal organization; a racketeer.

Translations

street gang member

• Afrikaans: rampokker (af)
• Czech: zločinec (cs) m, gangster (cs) m
• Dutch: gangster (nl)
• Estonian: gangster (et)
• Finnish: jengiläinen (fi)
• French: gangster (fr) m
• German: Gangster (de) m
• Italian: gangster (it) Template:mf
• Jèrriais: gangsteux m

• Malay: gengster (ms)
• Portuguese: gângster (pt)
• Russian: гангстер (ru) (gángster) m
• Sotho: tsotsi (st)
• Spanish: gángster (es) m, pandillero (es) m, marero (es) m, gánster (es) m, gangster (es) m
• Swahili: jangili (sw)
• Swedish: gangster (sv) c, gängmedlem (sv) c
• Turkish: çeteci (tr), gangster (tr)

Derived terms

• gangsta

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Italian

Noun

gangster m and f (invariable)

1. gangster

Derived terms

• gangsterismo
• gangsteristico

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡǎnɡster/
• Hyphenation: gang‧ster

Noun

gàngster m (Cyrillic spelling га̀нгстер)

1. gangster

Declension

    declension of gangster

	singular	plural
nominative	gangster	gangsteri
genitive	gangstera	gangstera
dative	gangsteru	gangsterima
accusative	gangstera	gangstere
vocative	gangsteru	gangsteri
locative	gangsteru	gangsterima
instrumental	gangsterom	gangsterima

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Spanish

Noun

gangster m (plural gangsters)

1. Alternative spelling of gángster.