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a criminal with branding — violence, but make it a personality.
means a member of an organized criminal group, or loosely, anyone who carries themselves with ruthless, calculated swagger.
from from gang, meaning a group that goes together, rooted in old english gan, to go; the -ster suffix turned it into a person, and prohibition-era america turned it into a legend.
prohibition boom1920s bootlegging made gangsters household names and folk heroes
al caponeonly ever convicted for tax evasion, not murder
slang driftnow often means excellent or impressive, no crime required
hollywood enginecagney and scorsese basically built a genre on the word