gunster

From gun +‎ -ster.

gunster (plural gunsters)

1. A gunman.
   • 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings (volume 6, page 9054)

     Santo Perrone is a gunster in Detroit connected with the Detroit Stone Works and he held a contract there.

   • 1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, numbers 3-63, page 10:

     A gent that fancies firearms to the point of academics — he's a gunster.

   • 2005, Robert Wallace, The Phantom Detective: Tycoon of Crime, page 38:

     You came in and started giving orders — then we find you mixed up in a gun-fight! […] How do we know those guys you described are gunsters?

• gunters, gurnets, surgent

gunster

1. indefinite plural of gunst