Sekirov Dictionary

gang

/ˈɡeɪ̯ŋ/

noun 17
verb 3
forms 4
phrases 2

noun17

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A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
- The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.
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a criminal group whose members keep each other safe and make money together
- The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.
A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
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A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.
- Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.
(US) A chain gang.
A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
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(Internet) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- The sun isn't real? What are you even talking about, gang?
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A group of animals.
- One day they followed a gang of deer that ran in toward the settlements. — 1915
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A group of turkeys.
- He was not long in discovering a fine gang of turkeys, and after assuring himself that many of them had taken the direction he desired, undertook to regain the covert by another route. — 1883
A set of things.
A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
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A set; all required for an outfit.
- a new gang of stays.
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A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- an outlet gang box; a double gang switch.
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A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- a gang of wires
- Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.
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(dialect) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang — 1840
(no longer used) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

verb3

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To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
- Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […] — 1981
(Scotland, Northern-England) To go; walk; proceed.
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Synonym of gangbang.
- He still liked the idea of them all ganging her [...] — 1970

forms

ganged · ganging · gangs · gangst

Phrases with gang

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