Thesaurus results for GANGBANGER

gangbanger

noun

ˈgaŋ-ˌbaŋ-ər

as in thug

a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang the argument that the DEA needs to focus more on the kingpins of the drug trade and less on the gangbangers in the street

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Recent Examples of gangbanger The video, which was played for Lefkow on Tuesday, showed an unidentified man standing out at 26th Street and Spauling Avenue asking where all the gangbangers were. —

Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026 Who signed off on gangbanger LaMar Cook being granted access to ship eight pounds of blow directly to Maura’s office suite in Springfield, as well as another 19 pounds of coke to a hotel on the UMass-Amherst campus? —

Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025 Murdered within about six months of each other at the height of their fame in the 1990s, their deaths spawned conspiracy theories of hitmen, coverups and cops on gangbangers’ payrolls. —

Veronica Bravo, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025 The indictment against the gangbangers, which was unsealed on June 16, follows a Fox News Digital report from April revealing that local leaders were sounding the alarm about the 18th Street Gang sweeping in to take control of the area. —

Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025

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In a season 3 teaser, Peter saves Suraj Sharma's Jay Batra from some thugs at a soccer stadium.

— Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
Foucauld had later left the army to become a Trappist monk and had established himself as a missionary in Tamanrasset, Algeria, in the middle of the Sahara Desert; he was killed there by local thugs in 1916.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026