a group or band: A gang of boys gathered around the winning pitcher.
2.
a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely, often exclusively, for social reasons, esp. such a group engaging in delinquent behavior.
3.
a group of people with compatible tastes or mutual interests who gather together for social reasons: I'm throwing a party for the gang I bowl with.
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a group of persons working together; squad; shift: a gang of laborers.
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a group of persons associated for some criminal or other antisocial purpose: a gang of thieves.
6.
a set of tools, electronic components or circuits, oars, etc., arranged to work together or simultaneously.
7.
a group of identical or related items.
–verb (used with object)
8.
to arrange in groups or sets; form into a gang: to gang illustrations for more economical printing on one sheet.
9.
to attack in a gang.
–verb (used without object)
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to form or act as a gang: Cutthroats who gang together hang together.
—Verb phrase
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gang up on, Informal. (of a number of persons) to unite in opposition to (a person); combine against: The bigger boys ganged up on the smaller ones in the schoolyard.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME; OE gang, gong manner of going, way, passage; c. OHG gang, ON gangr, Goth gagg;cf. gang2]
O.E. gong "a going, journey, way, passage," and O.N. gangr "a group of men, a set," both from P.Gmc. *gangaz (noun of action related to *gangan "to go"), from PIE base *ghengh- "to step" (cf. Skt. jangha "shank," Avestan zanga- "ankle," Lith. zengiu "I stride"). The sense evolution is probably via meaning "a set of articles that are usually taken together in going," especially a set of tools used on the same job. By 1627 this had been extended in nautical speech to mean "a company of workmen," and by 1632 the word was being used, with disapproving overtones, for "any band of persons traveling together." Gangway is O.E. gangweg "road, passage," and preserves the original sense of the word, as does gangplank (1846, Amer.Eng., replacing earlier gang-board). To gang up (on) is first attested 1925. To come on like gangbusters (c.1940) is from radio drama "Gangbusters" (1937-57) which always opened with a cacophony of sirens, screams, shots, and jarring music. Gang of Four (1976) translates Chinese sirenbang, the nickname given to the four leaders of the Cultural Revolution who took the fall in Communist China after the death of Mao.
Gang Mills, NY (CDP, FIPS 28145) Location: 42.15357 N, 77.13457 W Population (1990): 2738 (1073 housing units) Area: 17.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Fore"gang`er\, n. [Prop., a goer before cf. G. voreg["a]nger. See Fore, and Gang.] (Naut.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin? may be attached. --Totten.
Gang\, v. i. [AS. gangan, akin to OS. & OHG. gangan, Icel. ganga, Goth. gaggan; cf. Lith. ?engti to walk, Skr. ja?gha leg. [root]48. Cf. Go.] To go; to walk. Note: Obsolete in English literature, but still used in the North of England, and also in Scotland.
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