Usually means: Inexperienced youth in criminal activity.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word gunsel:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. gunsel: Merriam-Webster
  2. gunsel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gunsel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gunsel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gunsel: Wordnik
  6. gunsel: Wiktionary
  7. gunsel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. gunsel: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. gunsel: Dictionary.com
  10. gunsel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Gunsel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. gunsel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Gunsel: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gunsel: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gunsel: Urban Dictionary
  2. Gunsel: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (gunsel)

noun:  (slang, dated) Synonym of catamite: a young man kept by an elder as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.
noun:  (slang, dated) Synonym of bottom: a passive partner in a male homosexual relationship.
noun:  (prison slang, dated) Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship.
noun:  A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal.

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