road gang
Americannoun
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a group of workers employed to repair or build roads.
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(in the U.S.) a detail of prisoners set to repairing a road.
Etymology
Origin of road gang
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Jackson answered while working on a road gang to fulfill his sentence, picking up trash on the side of a Michigan highway.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., holder of degrees from at least five colleges, may spend the time on a road gang if an appeal is denied.
From Washington Times ● May 4, 2020
Each day for the past five months, a road gang has toiled on a Sisyphean task along the muddy Atlantic Coast, trying to fill a breach in a 60-mile sea wall with stones and sand.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
He announced that he had started out on a road gang himself after finishing high school, asked a dump-truck crew: "How much does this truck hold?"
From Time Magazine Archive
They don't think that the man in charge of this here road gang is the one that's a-doctoring trees!
From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Emerson Hough
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