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gang-banger

British  

noun

  1. slang a member of a street gang

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And sometimes it’s not even a gang-banger in the vacant apartments—you get kids who use the vacant apartments as their clubhouse, like kids in the suburbs would use a tree house.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones

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