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gangster

noun as in person involved in illegal activities

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The pair's Argentine Tango will feature a "gangster fight scene", and in a Strictly first, Carney will take the lead role.

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These brilliant episodes describe gangster murders, war injuries, firing squads, hangings and bullfight triumphs and deaths.

On the Italian side, the gangsters consider New York City to be a "gym" where their members go to be toughened up, criminology professor and modern organised crime expert Anna Sergi, previously told BBC.

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When goons broke up an independent labor rally, he reports, a naval intelligence officer enthused to the gangster boss Meyer Lansky, “Gee, you did a swell job.”

My role is that of a detective, and throughout this game of fatal political espionage, I encounter multiple puppet characters — electricians, would-be-mayors, gangsters, dead puppets.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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