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gang
1[gang]
noun
a group or band.
A gang of boys gathered around the winning pitcher.
a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely, often exclusively, for social reasons, especially such a group engaging in delinquent behavior.
a group of people with compatible tastes or mutual interests who gather together for social reasons.
I'm throwing a party for the gang I bowl with.
a group of persons working together; squad; shift.
a gang of laborers.
Synonyms: teama group of persons associated for some criminal or other antisocial purpose.
a gang of thieves.
a set of tools, electronic components or circuits, oars, etc., arranged to work together or simultaneously.
a group of identical or related items.
verb (used with object)
to arrange in groups or sets; form into a gang.
to gang illustrations for more economical printing on one sheet.
to attack in a gang.
verb (used without object)
to form or act as a gang.
Cutthroats who gang together hang together.
verb phrase
gang up on, (of a number of persons) to unite in opposition to (a person); combine against.
The bigger boys ganged up on the smaller ones in the schoolyard.
gang
2[gang]
verb (used without object)
to walk or go.
gang
1/ ɡæŋ /
noun
a group of people who associate together or act as an organized body, esp for criminal or illegal purposes
an organized group of workmen
a herd of buffaloes or elks or a pack of wild dogs
a group of shearers who travel to different shearing sheds, shearing, classing, and baling wool
a series of similar tools arranged to work simultaneously in parallel
( as modifier )
a gang saw
verb
to form into, become part of, or act as a gang
(tr) electronics to mount (two or more components, such as variable capacitors) on the same shaft, permitting adjustment by a single control
gang
2/ ɡæŋ /
verb
to go
gang
3/ ɡæŋ /
noun
a variant spelling of gangue
Other Word Forms
- ganged adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of gang1
Origin of gang2
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Detectives working on Operation Portaledge, which was set up in response to the gang violence across Scotland's central belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh, have so far made 57 arrests.
The investigation is running in parallel to the government-backed national inquiry into grooming gangs launched in June.
Clashes between criminal gangs and illegal miners in northwestern Nigeria over gold have killed at least 17 people, according to a security report prepared for the UN and seen by AFP on Friday.
A spokesman for the Hamas-controlled Gaza government said its security forces acted over the weekend to clear the hospital of criminal gangs that had taken it over and looted it after its staff was evacuated.
Labor peace on the often restive docks was ensured by unsavory—and, of course, unpublicized—cooperation between the military and Mafia-controlled waterfront gangs.
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