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wankster

noun

Etymology

Blend of wannabe + gangster, and simultaneously also evocative of wanker.

  1. derived from *ǵʰengʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *ganganą✻
  3. inherited from *gangan✻
  4. inherited from gangan
  5. inherited from gangen
  6. suffixed as gangster — “gang + ster”
  7. compounded as wankster — “wannabe + gangster”

Definitions

  1. A person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and…

    A person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and attitudes; a gangster poseur.

    • He becomes a real-life version of the synthesized, ghetto-head wanksters that MTV parades as black males in their Real World shows.
    • […] that whiteboy wannabe wankster waste is so far behind he can't even dream of catching up.
    • The first prototype of what would eventually morph into Ali G was called MC Jocelyn Cheadle-Hume, whom Sacha describes as “a hip-hop journalist, a wankster reporter.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA