Stunna

Stunna(The article is a work in progress) is a person whom performs part of an illegal act.
Masculine Usage
The term 'Stunna' is, today, widely used across the U.S. but has it's origins in Chicago organized crime. Though it seems to have appeared during the 1970s it was adopted by the southern states by the mid 1980s and was made popular by rap music in the late 1990s. It is now used in other culture in countries such as Japan, England, France, Germany, Eduador, and Brazil as a slang term for a person whom seem to have expensive things but very little income, or a person whom finds the best deals when shppoing; it may even now be use for a person whom finds product when shopping which no one esle can find or a collector of rare items.
Feminine Usage
A woman whom pretends to be a prostitute. Organized crime member would get women to perform illegal act envolving moeny handling, such as low level drug dealing the prerequisite being she had to have a notorious reputation for being a prostitute, so if detected there would a red herring for how she was coming into money.
History
The term was used perjorativley by capporegime to refer to associates or members of a crime family whom couldn't advance; because of reputation or mixed blood. It was adopted by a few gangs namely one small clique located in the Cabrini Green (CHA) during the early 1980s called the Stunna Boys then later the Stunna Boys lost a war to a larger gang; most likely the gang called 'GD' or 'Growth and Development' because almost amediatley after there was a clique who was though to belonging to the GDs calling themselves 'The Original Stunna Crew'. Stunnas are used by the mob it this day but the term isn't as commonly used. The most popular stunner job was lock manipulation. A person would break the locks on house at random for another person to enter a home or a place of business the stunna never know who the person is that does the next part of the crime, sometime a crime is entirely commited by stunna depending on how complicated it is. The main rule is that stunnas can't know each other. 'Stunna' morph into a common term used by various gangs esp. in grow southern cities as a person whom was to be initiated into a gang. It was designate specifically for those those determined to be 'Thugged-out', one whom couldn't make into exclusive circles.

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