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Definition of gangsta
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Synonyms for gangsta
Synonyms
bully, gangbanger, gangster, goon, gorilla, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, mobster, mug, plug-ugly, punk, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, thug, tough, toughie (also toughy), yob [British], yobbo [British]
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After getting his gangsta on, Snoop decided to switch things up by bringing the BET Awards audience to church. — Bianca Gracie, Billboard, "Snoop Dogg Takes the BET Awards 2018 to Church With a Lively Medley," 24 June 2018 It’s not labeled into punk rock, trap, old school, gangsta. — Katherine Turman, Billboard, "Kool Keith Talks New Dr. Octagon Project 'Moosebumps' & Why the Group Finally Returned After 22 Years," 11 Apr. 2018 At the 2018 awards, held in Berlin April 12, German gangsta rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang won the Echo for best rap album for their top-selling disc Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 3 (Young, Brutal, Good-looking 3). — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, "Anti-Semitic Controversy Could Provoke Rule Change at German Music Awards," 17 Apr. 2018 New jack swing would also be the musical backbone for black media in the early '90s, none more important than the gangsta flick New Jack City and the primetime comedy In Living Color. — Da'shan Smith, Billboard, "How Cardi B Achieved Stardom as an Old-School Hitmaker for New-School Hip-Hop," 12 Jan. 2018 Or when the gangsta rappers, and Oscar nominees, Three 6 Mafia, sang about pimps and hoes before the black-tie audience, hardly their usual crowd, and then, fantastically, won. — Cara Buckley, New York Times, "The Agony, Absurdity and Ecstasy of the Oscar for Best Song," 14 Feb. 2018 Since finding fame on the show, Mr Zhou had shown no inclination to upset prudish censors by returning to his gangsta-rapper roots. — The Economist, "Rappers’ knuckles rappedWhy hip-hop scares the Chinese Communist Party," 25 Jan. 2018 Gangsta in the way that gangsta should be – warring against those who seek to oppress. — Angela Helm, The Root, "They Continue to Disparage Harriet Tubman, But There’s a Remedy for That," 2 Sep. 2017 On the West Coast, the gangsta rappers weren’t helping Freestyle Fellowship or The Pharcyde the way Nas, Wu-Tang and Puffy did business with each other, or JAY-Z shouted out Talib Kweli and Common. — Andres Tardio, Billboard, "Murs on Bringing Back Paid Dues Festival: 'Hopefully I Won't Have to Sacrifice My Career This Time'," 1 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gangsta.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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