Gangsterize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To adapt to the norms of gangsters, or violent organized crime. transitive
  2. 2
    To subject to the abuses of gangsterism. transitive

    "1970s, Francis E. Dec, Worldwide Open Secret, tract […] such banks as Island Federal Bank of Hempstead gangsterized me and swindled me […]"

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"1970s, Francis E. Dec, Worldwide Open Secret, tract […] such banks as Island Federal Bank of Hempstead gangsterized me and swindled me […]"

Etymology

From gangster + -ize.

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