gangster n.
1. (US black) marijuana.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Weed (1998) 121: Gangster (because everybody used to think gangsters smoked it). | |
| Snakes (1971) 53: We been smokin on this gangster for an hour look like. | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 44: I lit up two bomber sticks of dynamite gangster. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1945–6) Devil’s Jump (2008) 51: ‘What is it?’ ‘Gage [...] Texas Tea. Mexican Spinach. Maitland madness. Loco weed. Indian Hemp. Gangster. Marijuanna.’. |
2. (US black) a cigarette.
| Black Jargon in White America 65: gangsters n. cigarettes. |
3. (US black) a troublemaker; an aggressive, abusive person.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 238: gangster [...] 2. Troublemaker. 3. Physically aggressive or abusive person. | |
| Doing Time 190: gangster: a young lout who pretends to be a big-time crim. In this case the word gangster is often prefixed by the phrase ‘would-be’. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Gangster. A prisoner who establishes an influence as a tough, particularly by consorting with others of that ilk. Often used pejoratively to describe a young lout who pretends to be a big time criminal. | |
| Prison Sl. 42: When one of the meaner, stronger inmates uses force and intimidation to achieve things, he is referred to as a gangster. |
4. (US black) a rebellious, non-conformist individual.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 120: The gangster [...] can be a physically violent or abusive person, intractable and immune to any verbal strategies designed to dissuade him. But, unlike the out-and-out hardhead, he has style, courage, and a ganglandlike code of ethics. He is the tough guy of TV and movies. | |
| Fence Around the Cuckoo 128: ‘Can I take Flash Jack?’ ‘Not to a sheep station. Not that little gangster of a dog. The Big Noise would have a fit.’. |
5. (US prison) HIV/AIDS.
| Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Gangster: HIV. ‘Be careful around him. He got that gangster.’ See also ‘Monster.’. |