Gypsy or Italian coming to a sticky end (6)

I believe the answer is:

romany

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'gypsy' is the definition.
('Romany' can be a synonym of 'gypsy')

'or italian coming to a sticky end' is the wordplay.
'or italian' becomes 'rom' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'coming to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'end' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'sticky' is 'y'.
'rom'+'an'+'y'='ROMANY'

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(Other definitions for romany that I've seen before include "Roy, man, you're a gypsy" , "one of those travelling" , "Traveller" , "Gypsy language" , "Language of gypsies" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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