new (or unfamiliar to me) words from undergraduates

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>_gank_ 'filch', as in "I'm gonna gank some of your fries"  [origin?]

I believe it's probably an abbreviated form of "gangster" (transitive
verb), which of course is often pronounced "gankster".

"Gangster" basically = "take by intimidation", I suppose (picture the
gangsters swaggering in and eating all the fries ... nobody's got the nerve
to object), or more generally just "take"/"grab".

Here is this transitive verb "gangster" on the Web:

<<"When we lost in Los Angeles in seven games in 1988, Bill Laimbeer and I
went into the Lakers' locker room and gangstered a bottle of their
champagne and we sat in our shower and bawled our eyes out, because we
thought we were the better team and should have won. And we vowed to each
other the next year we were going to win it.">>

http://www.hoophall.com/features/isiah_thomas.htm

-- Doug Wilson