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noun Nautical.

(on a ship) the sailors who are on duty but not on watch.

the longshoremen working on board a ship during loading and unloading.

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How to use deck gang in a sentence

How do you feel about Archer and the gang abandoning the cartel and returning to the office?
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The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.
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“Deck the Halls” was written back in the 16th century, when the English language was very different.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
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Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
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Maybe it didn't feel good to be on the hurricane deck of a good horse once more!
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
I'd much rather see what is going on than be cooped up below, and after lunch I told Bob I was going up on deck.
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