gangsta

adjective

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

characteristic of the violent life associated with urban gangs;

admirable or excellent

Categories Accolades

Collocates shit⁷, -ass⁶, white-wall⁵, wanksta⁴, bitch⁴, biatch³, ghetto³, beat³, flavor³, gangsta³, bang², kick², 64², mack², represent², trife², cavi², drop², buck-wild, bud, bust a grape, CPT, cat, chronic, club, corner, crack, Crenshaw, crunk, dank, down, dunn, figures, fit, flex, fly, fuck with, G, game, gang, gangsta rap, gully, H-town, hellafied, hip-hop, hit switches, hoe, hoo-ride, hoo-rida, hood, I'mma, ice cream, ish, 'jects, jump off, kicks, live, nahmsayin, no doubt, old school, on lock, on the regular, on wax, pimp, po-po, rapper, regulator, rhyme, ride, rock, ride, roll up, roll, sawed-off, sick, simp, simp, skull, slang, spark, straight, thugged-out, tool, trife, Vogue, word up, Y.G., muh'fucker, O.G., rap, 20-sack, four pounder, 41st side, 9, about, as shit, baby mama, back in the day, bail, bend corners, Benjamin, bitch, block, boo, Brick City

Etymology Derives from gang

Synonyms grimy, gully, gutter, hardcore, hood, raw, real, rugged, street

Timeline

1985 Too $hort "Wild Wild West" [Players]
With his gangsta ways and gangsta hooks
1986-05-15 Run-D.M.C. "Hit It Run" [Raising Hell]
It's called gangsta hard rock, non-stop hip-hop
1987-11-06 N.W.A. "Toughest Man Alive" feat. Fila Fresh Crew [N.W.A. & The Posse]
Don't try that gangster bullshit here

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gangsta

noun

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

someone who engages in street violence and other crime;

a member of a gang

Categories Gangs

Collocates wanksta⁷, slanger⁴, hustler⁴, -ass³, bitch³, thug³, glock², yo², Chi-town², project², pimp², dope², tool², eightball, about, B.G., backpack, backpacker, baller, bang, banger, bank, biatch, big-ballin, bitch, BK, blast, body, breezy, brick, burn, Caddy, chief, clip, clock, clucker, come up, corner, dank, dap, down, DT, e, figures, Fleetwood, floss, fuck with, G'd up, gangbanger, gat, green, green, H-town, hip-hop, hip-hopper, hit, hoe, it's all good, John Blaze, ki, leaf, live, loc'd up, mark, mash out, mob, nina, on the grind, on the low low, pack, player, pull someone's card, pusher, rap, rapper, rapping, roll, rugged, set, sheisty, sherm stick, sit on, slab, smoke, snitch, spot, straight, sucker, tax, TEC, throw a set, to the max, tote, trap, uzi, wanksta, weight, what it do, Y.G., jack boy, bend corners, tryna, bing, food, peng, shoot, ends, roll, flavor, gangsta, loc'd, shotty, straight, wannabe, 64, 187, 20, 24-7, 619, 84's

Derivatives gangstress, wanksta

Domains Crime, Violence

Etymology Derives from gang

Synonyms thug

Related concepts gangbang, gangbanger, set, set-trip, throw a set

Timeline

1983 Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel "White Lines (Don't Do It)" [White Lines (Don't Do It)]
Gangsters, thugs, and smugglers are thoroughly respected
1985-11-18 LL Cool J "I Can't Live Without My Radio" [Radio]
I'm a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd
1987-11-04 Ice-T "Intro" [Rhyme Pays]
Became a young gangster in the streets of L.A.

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