1 an organized group of criminals:
criminal gang members and drug dealers * a gang of pickpockets * A four-man gang carried out the robbery.
2 a group of young people who spend a lot of time together and often cause trouble or fight against other groups:
a gang of youths * a street gang * All the local boys are members of gangs.
3 (informal) a group of friends who meet regularly:
The whole gang will be there.
4 an organized group of workers or prisoners doing work together
seealsoCHAINGANG
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
gang together (informal) to join together in a group in order to have more power or strength
gang up (on / against sb) (informal) to join together in a group to hurt, frighten or oppose sb:
At school the older boys ganged up on him and called him names.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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