ちんぴら

See also: チンピラ

Japanese

Noun

ちんぴら (rōmaji chinpira)

  1. an apprentice yakuza, a low-ranking gangster, a young member of an organized crime group
  2. a hoodlum, a minor criminal, a hooligan, a punk
    • 1967, Kazuo Ōkubo, Aka to kuro, translation of Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal:
      もちろんアカデミ会員 (かいいん)の甥 (おい)で、将来教授 (しょうらいきょうじゅ)となるべきタンボーという名 (めい)のあのちんぴら文 (ぶん)士 (し)のことなどお忘 (わす)れになていることだろう。
      mochiron Akademi kaīn no oi de, shōrai kyōju to naru beki Tanbō to iu mei no ano chinpira bunshi no koto nado owasureninateiru koto darō.
      he is of course the nephew of a member of the Academy, a future professor by the name of Tambor, a literary hoodlum destined to be forgotten.
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