gunster

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English

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Etymology

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From gun +‎ -ster.

Noun

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gunster (plural gunsters)

  1. A gunman.
    • 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings (volume 6, page 9054)
      Santo Perrone is a gunster in Detroit connected with the Detroit Stone Works and he held a contract there.
    • 1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, numbers 3-63, page 10:
      A gent that fancies firearms to the point of academics — he's a gunster.
    • 2005, Robert Wallace, The Phantom Detective: Tycoon of Crime, page 38:
      You came in and started giving orders — then we find you mixed up in a gun-fight! [] How do we know those guys you described are gunsters?

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Noun

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gunster

  1. indefinite plural of gunst