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floating gang
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noun
a group of railroad workers who service or repair the track but are not assigned to a particular section.
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Origin of floating gang
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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How to use floating gang in a sentence
Why let a floating gang of Dagoes take so big a bunch of it back to sunny Italy?
Letters from an Old Railway Official|Charles DeLano Hine