Usually means: Member of organized criminal group.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. gangster: Merriam-Webster
  2. gangster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gangster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gangster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gangster: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gangster, gangster: Wordnik
  7. gangster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gangster: Wiktionary
  9. gangster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gangster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gangster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gangster: Dictionary.com
  13. gangster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gangster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gangster (disambiguation), Gangster (film), Gangster (film series), Gangster (novel), Gangster, The Gangster (Clive Cussler), The Gangster (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. gangster: Rhymezone
  17. Gangster (m), gangster, gangster, gangster (de), gangster (m), gngster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gangster: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gangster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. gangster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. gangster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gangster: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. gangster: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gangster: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gangster, gangster, gangster, gangster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gangster: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See gangsterdom as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gangster)

noun:  A member of a criminal or street gang.
noun:  A member of a professional criminal organization (in organized crime): a racketeer.
verb:  To act like a gangster; to commit street crime or run a racket.
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular, slang) Characteristic of a gangster; (especially) admirable and audacious.
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, Internet slang) On friendly terms; cool.

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