earlier specimen of gank and o.g.

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:40 AM -0700 7/31/00, Margaret Lee wrote:
>--- Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>>  On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Bernard W. Kane wrote:
>>
>>
>>  1989 _Chicago Tribune_ 19 July (Nexis)  In their
>>  confession to police, the
>>  two youths said they would go "make a run" or "gank
>>  an o.g.," which means
>>  they would drive around until they spotted an
>>  elderly woman, usually at a
>>  bank or shopping center or near a school.
>>
>     According to Smitherman (_Black Talk_), an "o.g"
>is  an original gangster, one whose bold actions have
>earned him respect (props).
>
>
I'm not sure whether that's the sense of o.g. involved here.  The
o.g. in the 1989 Trib cite is the gankEE, not the gankER, i.e. the
object of the verb "gank".  Unless the presumably defenseless
"elderly woman" is the original gangster, but that seems unlikely.

larry