They were American gangsterdom's big news makers in the 1930's.

A strong reek of high gangsterdom rose from the paper.

Montlero had been big in the American hierarchy of gangsterdom.

It recalls the halcyon days of Jewish gangsterdom.

Mr. Gotti was a dandy, and despite the exaggerated claims of the tabloids, there is nothing unusual about that in the annals of gangsterdom.

Geta (Ma Ju-Lung), one of Monga's old triad leaders, sees it as his duty to teach these cheeky young upstarts the true laws of gangsterdom.

Regrettably, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s sacrifice in the cause of probity never achieved its intended goals, including any discernible weakening of gangsterdom's foothold in the Teamsters' executive suite.

He reviled every act of violence, criminal or otherwise, from warfare and gangsterdom down through mugging and what he called the vicious gladiatorial displays of boxing, to the domestic violence of smacking a child.

As Billy grows in his awareness of the world, he realizes that "I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom."

Capone gave Chicago its "reputation as the locus classicus of American gangsterdom, a cityscape where bullet-proof roadsters with tommygun-toting hoodlums on running boards careened around State Street spraying fusillades of slugs into flower shop windows and mowing down the competition in blood-spattered garages".