Word.ws English Dictionary

gunster

gunster noun: a gunman.

Noun

gunster (plural gunsters)

  1. A gunman.
    • Santo Perrone is a gunster in Detroit connected with the Detroit Stone Works and he held a contract there.1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings (volume 6, page 9054)
    • A gent that fancies firearms to the point of academics — he's a gunster.1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, numbers 3-63, page 10

Forms of gunster

pluralgunsters

Origin of gunster

From gun + -ster.

Questions about gunster

What does gunster mean?
Gunster means a gunman.
What part of speech is gunster?
Gunster is a noun.
What is the plural of gunster?
The plural of gunster is gunsters.

Words near gunster in the dictionary

  1. gunsmithing
  2. gunsmiths
  3. gunsmithy
  4. gunsmoke
  5. Gunson
  6. gunster
  7. gunsters
  8. gunstick
  9. gunsticks
  10. gunstock
  11. gunstock war club

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gunster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gunster.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gunster. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.