gangsterwise

gangsterwise

English

Alternative forms

• gangster-wise

Etymology

From gangster +‎ -wise.

Adverb

gangsterwise (comparative more gangsterwise, superlative most gangsterwise)

1. According to, or in the manner of a gangster
   • 1932, George Jean Nathan, ‎Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 26:

     Indeed the Sunday Express is so upset by the success of "that stolid public school Englishman, Clive Brook, talking Cockney and twisting his mouth gangsterwise" in "Silence," that its critic suggests that this adopted virtuosity may be "another of Hollywood's crushing blows at the British Empire.

   • 2012, Amun, Carrentein Poochiona Ponderas:

     But what he did not respect, gangster-wise or otherwise but no wise, was that part of the pie that belonged to his uncles.

   • 2014, Michael Walsh, And All the Saints:

     I wasn't cuttin' much of a figure, gangsterwise.