Sentence examples for typical gangster from inspiring English sources

Not a typical gangster.

There is the typical gangster body: "Jack Cerone... 5'6 195", 195 lbs.... stout".

But other than that, Jessy Moss is a typical gangster rapper.

'Jay-Z is not like your typical gangster rapper,' argued Rupert Acton, 26, an aspiring hip-hop artist.

In the movies, your typical gangster is a fast-talking joker, a wisecrack machine brimming with raunchy, unprintable quips.

Then there is the typical gangster trajectory, which mirrors the national trajectory, from poor to rich, east to west, busy to free.

All of that might create the picture of a typical gangster-turned-rapper but, in fact, nothing about Thug (which is apparently what even his closest friends call him) is typical.

"I didn't want to do a movie about the typical American gangsters," he said.

"Bush's assumption of office turned a peaceful world into a pandemonium unprecedented in history as it is plagued with a vicious circle of terrorism and war," continued the statement, adding that Mr. Bush's aides and allies are "a typical gang of political gangsters".

This makes him an intriguing anomaly, unlike both the typical tight-jawed macho American gangster heroes and his vengeful, somber countrymen.

His boasting about having weapons of mass destruction and then being unable to really build them or keep them is typical — he's just a gangster, who lived by fear and for money.