Gang

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.
  • noun. A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.
  • noun. A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis.
  • noun. A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson.
  • noun. A matched or coordinated set, as of tools.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A pack of wolves or wild dogs.
  • noun. A herd, especially of buffalo or elk.
  • intransitive verb. To band together as a group or gang.
  • intransitive verb. To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production.
  • intransitive verb. To attack as an organized group.
  • phrasal verb. To join together in opposition or attack.
  • phrasal verb. To act together as a group.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To go; walk; proceed.
  • noun. A going; walking; ability to walk.
  • noun. Currency.
  • noun. A way; course; passage.
  • noun. The channel of a stream, or the course in which it is wont to run; a watercourse.
  • noun. Hence A ravine or gulley.
  • noun. In mining. See gangue.
  • noun. The field or pasture in which animals graze: as, those beasts have a good gang.
  • noun. A number going or acting in company, whether of persons or of animals: as, a gang of drovers; a gang of elks.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. As much as one goes for or carries at once; a go.
  • noun. A retired place; a privy; a jakes.
  • noun. Synonyms Covey, etc. See flock.
  • noun. Nautical, a set of standing rigging.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To go; to walk.
  • noun. A going; a course.
  • noun. 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
  • noun. A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
  • noun. A set; all required for an outfit.
  • noun. The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization.
  • noun. A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck.
  • noun. a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below).
  • noun. a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft.
  • noun. a master or employer of a gang of workmen.
  • noun. See Gang board (above).
  • noun. See Gang cultivator (above).
  • noun. a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates.
  • noun. a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart.
  • Word Usage
    ""My impression is that this is the work of a gang -- a _gang_.""
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    Chang  Fang  Hang  Kuomintang  Lang  
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    army  band  bunch  camp  club  
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    ganged  ganges  ganging  gangs