gunster
English
Etymology
gun + -ster
Noun
gunster (plural gunsters)
- A gunman.
- 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings (volume 6, page 9054)
- Santo Perrone is a gunster in Detroit connected with the Detroit Stone Works and he held a contract there.
- 1957, The Monthly Record (volume 61, issues 3-63, page 10)
- A gent that fancies firearms to the point of academics — he's a gunster.
- 2005, Robert Wallace, The Phantom Detective: Tycoon of Crime (page 38)
- 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?
- 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings (volume 6, page 9054)