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Posted by RivalOfTheRose (Member # 11535) on :

I couldn't find it....

Thanks!

Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :

Gangsta!

Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :

I asked my Hawaiian friend today in church. He gave me two suggestions, although he warned that both are specific to males (he couldn't think of a female conception of "gangster" in Hawaiian):

Mok: Adjective or Noun, used very similarly to gangtser, essentially meaning rough and tough in a specifically Polynesian way.

Blala: Similar, but used only as a noun, and used more by the older generation.