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gangster

noun as in person involved in illegal activities

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In Sunday’s finale of “The Penguin,” Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb, the gangster who gets called the title moniker, finally wins his power play over Sofia.

Recently he seemed to suggest that the Jazz Age gangster Al Capone was still alive.

From Slate

Young Quincy wanted to be a gangster too.

From BBC

He invokes gangster Al Capone and speaks fondly of authoritarians including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who Trump called “a friend of mine.”

Trump was that gangster on the block that ran the show.”

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

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