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Gangster
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example Sentences
- The gangster rappers take the money and the opprobrium, while the bohemians get the critical raves but can't sell records.
- In a newspaper interview he defended himself against accusations that he was a gangster.
- The intertwined stories of people drawn together one night after a gangster is murdered.
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Word Origin & History
gangster
1896, Amer.Eng., from gang (q.v.) in its criminal sense. Gangland is from 1912. Gangsta rap style is generally credited to West Philly hip hop artist Schoolly D, but his "Gangster Boogie" (1984) used the conventional spelling; NWA was spelling it gangsta by 1988.
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