Gang

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.
  • n. A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.
  • n. Informal A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis: The whole gang from the office went to a clambake.
  • n. A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson: a railroad gang.
  • n. A matched or coordinated set, as of tools: a gang of chisels.
  • n. A pack of wolves or wild dogs.
  • n. A herd, especially of buffalo or elk. See Synonyms at flock1.
  • verb-intransitive. To band together as a group or gang.
  • v. To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production: gang several pages onto one printing plate.
  • v. To attack as an organized group.
  • phrasal-verb. gang up To join together in opposition or attack: The older children were always ganging up on the little ones.
  • phrasal-verb. gang up To act together as a group: various agencies ganging up to combat the use of illicit drugs.
  • n. Variant of gangue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To go; walk; proceed.
  • n. A going, journey; a course, path, track
  • n. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose
  • n. a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad
  • n. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
  • n. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit, or a group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
  • n. A chain gang.
  • n. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set
  • n. A set; all required for an outfit
  • n. A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
  • n. A group of wires attached as a bundle;
  • n. The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
  • v. To band together as a group or gang.
  • v. Eye-dialect spelling of gan
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To go; to walk.
  • n. A going; a course.
  • n. A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad
  • n. A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
  • n. A set; all required for an outfit.
  • n. The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
  • n. A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join.
  • n. A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To go; walk; proceed.
  • n. A going; walking; ability to walk.
  • n. Currency.
  • n. A way; course; passage.
  • n. The channel of a stream, or the course in which it is wont to run; a watercourse.
  • n. Hence A ravine or gulley.
  • n. In mining. See gangue.
  • n. The field or pasture in which animals graze: as, those beasts have a good gang.
  • n. A number going or acting in company, whether of persons or of animals: as, a gang of drovers; a gang of elks.
  • n. A number of workmen or laborers of any kind engaged on any piece of work under supervision of one person; a squad; more particularly, a shift of men; a set of laborers working together during the same hours.
  • n. A combination of several tools, machines, etc., operated by a single force, or so contrived as to act as one: as, a gang of saws or plows; a gang of fish-hooks; a gang of mine-cars, tubs, or trams.
  • n. As much as one goes for or carries at once; a go.
  • n. A retired place; a privy; a jakes.
  • n. Synonyms Covey, etc. See flock.
  • To arrange in gangs; combine (several) into one set, to be operated together: as, to gang saws, plows, or the like. See gang, n., 9.
  • n. Nautical, a set of standing rigging.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. act as an organized group
  • n. an organized group of workmen
  • n. an association of criminals
  • n. an informal body of friends
  • n. tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    ganged    ganges    ganging    gangs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    group    aggroup    gathering    assemblage    tool   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    go    walk    going    course    squad    set    matrix    gangue    company    crew   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chang    Fang    Hang    Kuomintang    Lang    Lange    Liang    Nanchang    Pyongyang    Shenyang   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mob    band    horde    crow    group    army    bunch    party    leader    squad