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gunster en · NOUN

Etymology

From gun + -ster.

Meanings

1. A gunman.
   • A gent that fancies firearms to the point of academics — he's a gunster. 1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, numbers 3-63, page 10:
   • You came in and started giving orders — then we find you mixed up in a gun-fight! […] How do we know those guys you described are gunsters? 2005, Robert Wallace, The Phantom Detective: Tycoon of Crime, page 38:
   • Santo Perrone is a gunster in Detroit connected with the Detroit Stone Works and he held a contract there. 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings (volume 6, page 9054)

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