A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(BANGK-stuhr) 

MEANING:

noun: A banker who engages in dishonest or illegal behavior.

ETYMOLOGY:

A blend of banker + gangster. From the derogatory suffix -ster which also gave us poetaster, mathematicaster, and philosophaster. Earliest documented use: 1893.

USAGE:

"So far for example, no bankster has been indicted/convicted for having a major hand in running the global economy to the ground.”
 Demise of the Prevalent Political Economy; Capital (Addis Abada, Ethiopia); Mar 11, 2013.