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Recent Examples of gangsta The tough, gangsta image that defined late ’80s and early ’90s hip-hop had now been sanded down into something more aspirational and decidedly capitalist. Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 12 May 2025 The Geto Boys used expletives and a lot of bravado, but the core of their message is that a ‘gangsta’ is unafraid to be themselves, and confident in their experience. Angela Andaloro, People.com, 9 May 2025 According to Shaw, this is exactly what happened when Tupac later moved to Los Angeles and fully embraced the elevated gangsta image. Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 18 Apr. 2025 Things just ain’t the same for Dre and Snoop, the gangsta-rap godfathers whose rule-breaking crassness and scandalous storytelling helped coax Time Warner to dump its piece of Interscope Records in 1995 under pressure from Senator Bob Dole. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gangsta
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gangsta
Noun
  • We’re then introduced to Louie, a thug who works for a loan shark, threatening and killing people.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s also a tropical storm circulating, as if the gangsters flew in from the tropics.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Others are new, building on a genuinely fresh and funny revelation that explains not only a cold open involving yakuza gangsters half a world away in Osaka, but also why this quaint town is sitting on a stash of weaponry big enough to overthrow the governments of several small nations.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our research suggests that the vast majority of Republican voters want to close loopholes that allow criminals and dangerous people to get their hands on guns.
    Gabby Giffords, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The days of letting dangerous criminals terrorize American citizens are over.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Because the traits that make someone a hero in a story can easily lend themselves to being painted as a villain, too.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin play estranged old friends who reconnect at the funeral of a mutual friend, only to realize that their friend's dead husband was really the villain in all their lives.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Gangsta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gangsta. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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