gangbanger
Example Sentences
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"It was eating me up inside," he said of his actions at age 16, when he was "a straight-up gangbanger".
From BBC
As his career progressed, Maridueña was offered a host of stereotypical roles for Latino actors — “gangbanger #2, drug guy.”
From Los Angeles Times
“La renta!” shouted a pistol-packing gangbanger in a wheelchair who was called El Wheelo.
From Los Angeles Times
“They don’t understand it because my son isn’t a gangbanger, violent type,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
This enemy to be defended against may be a "Muslim terrorist," an "urban" black male or a "Latino gangbanger."
From Salon
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