What is "kray"

Usage examples of "kray".

The Kray brothers and the Richardsons, people were scared to death of them, but not Jack Shelley.

In the good, bad old days he was as important as the Kray brothers and the Richardson gang.

National Security Agency scientists at Fort Meade, Maryland, using Kray supercomputers, spent several months trying to crack the EncryptionLok-2 codes.

Brescia, the rapid occupation of which had discouraged our army anew, he ordered General Kray to vigorously press on the siege of Preschiera.

General Kray therefore established his headquarters at Valeggio, a place situated at an equal distance between Preschiera and Mantua, and he extended from the Po to the lake of Garda, on the banks of the Mencio, thus investing the two cities at the same time.

In the sixties the notorious Kray twins extended their gambling and protection empire from the East End to include most of Mayfair and the West End.

Ravens, Perry and Cornwell may not be the Kray brothers, but anyone who can make them jump when he whistles must be a very serious player indeed.

Or perhaps I expected a Kray type with big shoulders and a bigger attitude.

Enger, Stockach, and Moesskirch, defeated Field-marshal Kray, who was now at the head of the Austrian troops.

When they locked up people like the Krays and the Richardsons and threw away the key, Jack changed his ways.

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

Even the 212 Krays had kept their mother out of their dealings, and that was more power to them.

In the notorious case of the Krays in 1969 defence counsel was permitted to cross-examine jurors upon whether they had read certain newspaper articles discreditable to the accused.

The Krays case was wholly exceptional historically, but this case is not.

Newman had been mates with the Krays and had picked up one or two of their nice little habits.