"American ___" (2007 biographical crime drama starring Denzel Washington)

Usage examples of gangster.

The hard-faced gangster who stood before him was meeting with his approval, and even as he nodded in satisfaction, Durgan curled his lips maliciously.

The gangster looked at Durgan in utter bewilderment - too surprised to speak.

Familiarly, these two characters were known as Louie the Grift and Side-face Sam and they represented what might have been termed in better circles a renaissance of the gangster epoch in American history.

I can tell stories of long-dead gangsters who made the Krays seem like Amnesty International.

Corba Loune, a gangster and racketeer responsible for the deaths of more than a dozen people including two police officers.

From the continuous supply of newspaper clippings delivered by Rutledge Mann, The Shadow knew the killer was after a notorious gangster, soon to be housed in the Olympia Hotel by the state prior to his giving testimony at the Corba Loune trial.

Several Organization gangsters were lounging around in the couches, drinking and talking as they were served by a non-possessed barkeeper.

Marty Lunk had heard the shots, crouching with his gangsters on the stairs to the little attic.

It was a stalemate between The Shadow and half a dozen gangsters, while Marty Lunk and a pair of aids were rifling the strongroom where Hampton Uhler and his servants lay dead!

Korber was correctly identified as the man who had been in the wrecked cab outside the Club Miche, but the evidence indicated that the taxi had been accidentally boxed by other cars that contained feuding gangsters.

Jabba Jabba the Hutt, gangster preeminent, was receiving petitioners at his Mos Eisley town house, a short walk from the cantina.

And if those gangsters were black marketeers, he had the contacts to dispose of smuggled goods.

Richards said, simultaneously trying to inject sincerity into his voice and to remember all the old gangster movies he had seen on teevee as a kid.

He might even have been persuaded to give evidence against the gangster Yue Hwa was spying on, and, thinking of that, Yue Hwa had identified himself as a cop to Qi.

Herbert Zull identifies murdered gangster as the slayer of Richard Harkness.