black gang
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of black gang
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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"That might be a white gang, that might be a black gang, a Muslim gang, whatever, and that then tends to write off whole communities for some people," he added.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024
Former Attorney General Eric Holder was a strong supporter, given the soaring incarceration rates, and Mr. Robbins says his prison plays, mingling black gang members and white supremacists, should be a bipartisan project.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2018
By some estimates, there were as many as 45,000 Latino and 25,000 black gang members in Los Angeles County in 1988.
From New York Times • May 27, 2015
I said, 'Y'know, Marty, we've done very well with these black gang films and 'Mean Streets' is a gang film.
From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2011
When the whim takes him, Dadswell goes to sea, works in the black gang or deck crew, returns with human-interest yarns that set him solid with his plain-folks readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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