Antedating of "Gangster"

[Fred Shapiro]

gangster (OED 1896)

1887 _Daily Inter Ocean_ 21 Oct. 4 (19th Century U.S. Newspapers)  To the
mind's eye of the once defiant gangster the walls of Joliet loom ever more
plainly in view.

Fred Shapiro


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