Gang

Definition: Gang

Gang

Noun

1. An association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves".

2. An informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd".

3. An organized group of workmen.

4. Tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together.

Verb

1. Act as a gang.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gang" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Economics

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

Mining

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gang

Assemblage

Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.

Jurisdiction

Press gang; exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier.

Motion

Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;

Party

Knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall.

Thief

Gang, gang of thieves, theft ring; organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra.

Crosswords: Gang

Czech (gang), Danish (corridor, occasion, passage, time), Dutch (corridor, gallery, passage), French (gang, Ghent), German (aisle, ambulation, arcade, bout, canal, colonnade, corridor, course, development, duct, errand, gait, gallery, gang, gangway, gear, hallway, heat, landing, lode, meatus, operation, pace, passage, passage(way), passageway, reef, running, speed, stride, thread, tunnel, vein, walk, walkway), Indonesian (alley, alleyway, breezeway, corridor, gang, gangway, narrow street, passage, passageway, slum), Serbo-Croatian (ganges), Vietnamese (cast iron, crude iron, pig-iron).

Archie and the Riverdale gang were a pure and fun loving bunch (Chasing Amy; writing credit: Kevin Smith.)

Hey, that's cool and the gang! (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Together, we're part of the roughest, toughest, biggest, kindest, fairest, bestest darn gang in the whole world (The Return of Captain Invincible; writing credit: Andrew Gaty; Steven E. de Souza)

Bart quit his tutoring job and joined a violence gang! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Just another tasty treat from the gang at Empire Records (Empire Records; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen)

Workin' on the chain gang (Chain Gang; performing artist: The Nylons)

OH, BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG (BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG; performing artist: The Pretenders)

You don't understand about runnin' with a gang (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio)

Always carrying on with the gang (Black Cat; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Dog pound gang (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

The Zoo Gang (1974)

Blu gang vissero per sempre felici e ammazzati (1973)

Yogi's Gang (1973)

The Rainbow Gang (1973)

Le Gang des otages (1972)

I'm The Leader Of The Gang (performing artist: Gary Glitter)

Chain Gang (performing artist: The Nylons)

Chain Gang (performing artist: Sam Cooke)

Back On The Chain Gang (performing artist: The Pretenders)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Gang Research (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Our Gang - Little Rascals Greatest Hits (reference)

• Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Gang Affiliated (reference)

• See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! (reference)

• Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Gang Bang (reference)

• Gang Related [Original Soundtrack] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 2 PORT SINGLE GANG FIXED (reference)

• Fellowes Scooby Doo & The Gang Mouse Pad (reference)

• LEVITON 80409-W Decora Wall Plates Double Gang - White (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Leviton 802-88002-W Single Gang Child Resistant Wallplate (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The killing gang at work. Method of slaughtering fur-seals On the killing grounds near the village, Saint Paul's Island Drawing by H. W. Elliott. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Gang of Portuguese in hold of menhaden steamer filling the hoisting tubs From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Black and white photo of a railroad work gang posing alonkg the tracks. Credit: Unknown.

"Gunner's Gang", photographed in one of the ship's torpedo rooms. Halftoned photograph, published in Uncle Sam's Navy, 1898. Credit: NAVY.

Machine gun pumps a period into career of Paddy Murray, gang leader ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Gang of Slaves journeying to be sold in a southern market / W.H. Brooke F.S.A. ; F. Holl. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. New York, carpenter's gang. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Southern chain gang. Credit: Library of Congress.

Needles, California. An Indian section gang at work on the tracks in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yards. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mexican gang labor. Cantaloupe workers. Imperial Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He became the ally of a boy named Aubrey Mills and founded with him a gang of adventurers in the avenue

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

The gang then ransacked the office of the newspaper. (references)

India

The police blamed a local criminal gang for the assaults, and arrested four persons. (references)

Bangladesh

On June 5, members of a gang believed to be engaged in stealing shipping oil and property kidnaped Atahar Siddique Khasru, the Sitakunda correspondent of Dhaka-based Bangla-language daily Ittefaq. (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

A prominent example of violence directed at homosexuals occurred in Sao Paulo in February 2000, when Edson Neris da Silva was beaten to death by a skinhead gang after having been seen holding hands with another man. (references)

Economic History

Norway

Leading Oslo papers include Aftenposten, Dagbladet and Verdens Gang. (references)

Macau

Recently, gang violence, a dark spot in the economy, has declined somewhat, to the benefit the tourism sector. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

The Don Fefe gang killed 13 persons. (references)

Haiti

On June 14, the residents killed two of the gang members. (references)

Haiti

In April a gang killed 10 motorists traveling on a Port-au-Prince road. (references)

Minorities

Bangladesh

Local gang leaders sometimes attack religious minorities, perceiving them to be weak and vulnerable. (references)

Panama

Mainstream political elites generally are unconcerned by the economic problems of black populations and a concomitant rise in drug use, crime, and gang violence. (references)

Political Economy

Honduras

The military continued to participate in joint patrols with police to prevent and combat high levels of criminal and gang activity. (references)

Political Rights

Turkey

The ECHR stated that the Ankara SSC was not an independent and impartial tribunal; that the applicant's rights to a fair trial had been violated because they were not given key information about charges and witnesses; and that the alleged membership in an organized gang had not been proved. (references)

Women

Pakistan

The law provides for the death penalty for persons convicted of gang rape. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Violence against women, including domestic violence and gang rape, is a serious and prevalent problem. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A gang of robbers

Expressions using "gang": armed gang ♦ breakdown gang ♦ chain gang ♦ gang bang ♦ Gang board ♦ gang boss ♦ Gang cask ♦ Gang cultivator ♦ Gang days ♦ Gang drill ♦ gang fight ♦ gang hooks ♦ gang leader ♦ Gang master ♦ gang mill ♦ Gang Mills ♦ gang of criminals ♦ gang of Four ♦ gang of robbers ♦ gang of wells ♦ Gang plank ♦ Gang plow ♦ Gang press ♦ gang rape ♦ gang saw ♦ gang sawmill ♦ Gang tide ♦ gang together ♦ Gang tooth ♦ gang up ♦ gang up against smb. ♦ gang up on ♦ gang up on smb. ♦ gang up with smb. ♦ gang way ♦ Gang week ♦ Impress gang ♦ Live gang ♦ press gang ♦ road gang ♦ round gang ♦ section gang ♦ Slabbing gang ♦ Swedish gang mill ♦ vigilante gang ♦ water gang ♦ youth gang. Additional references.

Beginning with "gang": gang-bang, gang-banged, gang-bangers, gang-bangs, gang-boss, gang-bosses, gang-buster, gang-chief, gang-culture, gang-fight, Gang-flower, gang-girl, gang-girls, gang-land, gang-leader, gang-leadership, gang-like, gang-lion, gang-members, gang-of-lads-from-oldham, gang-plank, gang-planks, gang-rape, gang-raped, gang-related, gang-saw, gang-up, gang-versus-gang, gang-violence, gang-way, gang-work.

Ending with "gang": press-gang.

Containing "gang": press-gang smb. into doing smth..

Afrikaans

skare (accumulation, are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, group, heap, herd, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), bende (band, bevy). (various references)

Albanian

grup (array, batch, body, bracket, camp, clutch, cohort, colony, confederate, coterie, crowd, group, groupment, lot, parcel, party, phalanx, platoon, squad, tally, team, troop, unit), turn (change, circuit, shift), sulmoj me bandë, skuadër (crew, navy, party, section, squad, Square, team), shoqëri (association, companionship, company, comradeship, consortium, crowd, entourage, fellowship, guild, life, society, tendance, world), parti (party), komplet veglash (gridiron), formoj bandë (gang up on), brigadë (brigade, crew, team), bandë (band, bunch, swathe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجموعة شباب, ‏هاجم كعصابة, ‏عصابة (bandage, herd, pack, ring, robbers, set, shower, swathe, tape), ‏عدة (apparatus, equipage, equipment, kit, outfit, several, sundry, tackle), ‏طقم (set, suit), ‏طاقم (crew, ensemble, staff, train), ‏ذهب (be, betake, gild, go, gold, leave, repair), ‏جماعة (association, band, body, clan, cluster, cohort, company, connection, connexion, corporation, drove, gaggle, group, horde, order, troupe), ‏شكل جماعة. (various references)

Basque

talde. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съюзявам се (ally, confederate), струпвам се (muster), шайка (crew, horde, mob, tribe), комплект (complement, outfit, set, suit, suite), група (assortment, band, bandwagon, batch, body, category, clan, cluster, cohort, crowd, group, knot, party, series, set, society, squad, stirps, suite, troop), образувам шайка, бригада (brigade, party, squadron), банда (band, bandwagon, crew, mob, pack, push, ring, set), пасмина (bad lot, brood, crew, tribe). (various references)

Chinese 

幫 (group, party, to assist, to help, to support), 一群 (regiment), 帮会. (various references)

Czech

gang, tlupa (band, troop), parta (batch, bunch, crew, crowd, lot, outfit, set, team), banda (herd, racket, vermin), èeta (platoon, relay, squad, team). (various references)

Danish

bande (band, bevy, blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear). (various references)

Dutch

bende (are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, horde, pack, set, troop), troep (accumulation, are, band, bevy, clique, cluster, collection, coterie, crowd, good great group, group, heap, herd, junto, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, troop, troupe), schare (accumulation, are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, good great group, group, heap, herd, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), ploeg (plough, squad, team). (various references)

Esperanto

roto (squad), bando (band, bevy). (various references)

Faeroese

harkalið (band, bevy, horde, troop), flokkur (are, bevy, class, cluster, collection, faction, group, heap, herd, pack, party, set, side, squad, swarm, troop, troupe, type), fjøld (band, bevy), bólkur (group, squad). (various references)

Farsi 

مشی (Demarche, Tack), گام برداری (Tread), گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), سفرکردن (Journey, Trip), خرامش (Gait, Glide, Pace), جمعیت تشکیل دادن , جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Society, Throng), رفتن (Betake, Bound, Go, Out, Pattern), دسته جمعی عمل کردن , دسته جنایتکاران . (various references)

Finnish

työryhmä (team), työkunta (crew, side), sakki (crowd), rikollisjoukko, porukka (crowd), metsätyöryhmä (crew, side), kopla (band), joukkue (band, body, platoon, team, troop), jengi. (various references)

French

bande, équipe. (various references)

German

bande (band, bevy, bonds, bunch, caboodle, crew, fetters, mob, pack, rout, set, shackles), rotte (band, bevy, herd, horde, pack, rank, rout, sounder, squad, troop), gruppe (band, body, bracket, category, class, clique, clump, cluster, contingent, denomination, element group, group, huddle, lot, pack, party, ring, section, set, squad, squadron, team, tern, wing). (various references)

Greek 

σπείρα (annulus, coil, mob, spiral, volute, whorl), συμμορία (mob, ring). (various references)

Hebrew 

חברי�" (clique, company), כ� ופי�" (band). (various references)

Hungarian

banda (band, bevy, clique, covey, crew, crowd, kit, nest, set, troop), brigád (brigade, crew, squad, team), gengszterbanda, csorda (bunch, drove, herd, horde), csoport (band, bank, battery, bunch, clump, cluster, colony, company, covey, faction, group, knot, number, platoon, posse, rating, team, troop, wing), csapat (band, bevy, cohort, company, covey, flock, group, party, side, skein, team, troop), bivalycsorda. (various references)

Indonesian

gerombolan (bunch, cluster, group, troop), gang (alley, alleyway, breezeway, corridor, gangway, narrow street, passage, passageway, slum), segerombolan (a group or (bunch, band)), satu setel, regu (squad, team). (various references)

Italian

squadra (crew, party, side, squad, Square, team), compagnia (academy, bevy, circle, club, companionship, company, corporation, crowd, fellowship, gathering, group, lot, party, society, squad), banda (band, connection, league, pack, ring, stripe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�' (frivolous, futile, party, set, transient, vain), 凶党 (gangsters), ギャル�"� (gallop, galloping inflation), 一身 (conspirators, one's own interests, oneself, partisans, throughout the body). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうとう (commonfront, deputy head teacher, gangsters, joint struggle, people from one's hometown, sensational, vice principal), いちみ (a gang, a tinge, a touch, an ingredient, clan, conspirators, partisans), ギャング , と (10, 18 litres, door, metropolitan, municipal, party, person, set, ten, way). (various references)

Korean 

도당 (Faction). (various references)

Manx

skimmee (cast, company, crew, hands, ship's company), geng. (various references)

Norwegian

gjeng, bande, arbeidslag. (various references)

Occitan

banda de raubaires. (various references)

Pig Latin

anggay.(various references)

Portuguese

quadrilha (band, country dance, pack, quadrille), bando (band, bevy, brood, cohort, covey, flock, group, herd, pack, promulgation, publication, squad, troop), turma (detachment, group, squad, team). (various references)

Romanian

pune laolaltã (lump), haitã (bitch, pack, the hounds), echipã (group, relay, set, side, spell, squad, team), complex de instrument, clicã (cabal, clan, clique, faction, junto, pack, parcel, set, squad), ceatã (band, cohort, drove, flock, group, knot, order, pack, ring, rout, tribe, troop), cârdãşie (clique, conspiracy), cârd (band, bevy, drove, flock, group, herd, pack, shoal, troop), brigadã (brigade, crew, pair, team), bandã (band, binder, bunch, clique, cushion, pack, parcel, ribbon, ring, rout, set, strap, strip, tape, troop), aparaturã (apparatus, enginery, gear). (various references)

Russian 

шайка (banditti, mob), компания (bunch, companionship, company, crowd, fellowship, horde, party, steelmaker), комплект галетный, комплект (complement, kit, set, set of, suit, suite), группа (bank, bevy, bunch, clump, cluster, cohort, covey, encircling force, group, lot, pack, packet, parcel, party, series, shapeup, team), ватага (band), организовать бригаду, орава (horde), набор (composition, conscription, intake, kit, lineup, line-up, repertoire, repertory, selection, set, set occurrence, suite, typesetting, type-setting), артель (artel, crew), бригада рабочих, банда (band, banditti). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smena radnika, ići (get on, go, go by, mosey, redound, tread in, truck, walk, wend), banda (mob). (various references)

Spanish

pandilla (band, clique, coterie, crew, mob, ring, set, team), equipo (accouterment, accouterments, apparatus, appointments, crew, equipage, equipment, gear, kit, lot, outfit, party, plant, set, shift, side, squad, tackle, team, things), cuadrilla (group, party, quadrille, troop), banda (band, banditti, bank, bend, brass band, Lane, push, sash, scarf, set, side, strip, track, troop). (various references)

Swedish

liga (league, set), lag (act, code, company, enactment, law, liquor, party, set, side, solution, statute, syrup, team), gäng (crew, crowd, push, set), band (band, bands, belt, bevy, bind, binding, bond, bonds, cover, fret, hoop, lead, leash, ligament, orchestra, restraint, ribbon, sling, string, tape, tie, tied, volume). (various references)

Thai

แก๊ง. (various references)

Turkish

grup (band, batch, body, bunch, category, clan, class, clump, clutch, ensemble, group, party, push, series, set), takım (band, battery, brigade, bunch, clique, Covey, fitment, gear, group, outfit, platoon, posse, set, side, squad, suit, suite, tackle, team, tribe), sürü (cartload, cloud, Covey, crew, crowd, drove, flock, fold, herd, horde, pack, regiment, run, shoal, swarm), harekete geçmek (bestir oneself, gang up, roll up, start to move, take action), ekip (brigade, crew, firm, outfit, party, platoon, shift, squad, stable, team), birleşmek (affiliate, agree, ally, ally oneself, amalgamate, associate oneself, band together, be made one, coalesce, combine, confederate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, converge, couple, fasten, federate, fuze, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit, knit up, link, make one, meld, merge, reunite, unite, weld), çete (band, bunch, mob, push, ring). (various references)

Ukrainian

створювати банду, група (assemblage, batch, bracket, bunch, circle, class, cluster, group, outfit, packet, set), організовувати бригаду (gang up), набір (assortment, bank, intake, selection, suit), бригада (brigade, crew, team), банда (band, banditti, nest). (various references)

Vietnamese 

toán (band, company, mathematical), tốp, kíp bọn, đo� n (band, bevy, body, cloud, legion, set, troop). (various references)

coetu, coetum, coetus, coetuum, manibus, manu, manui, manum, manumque, manus, manuum. (various references)

brigata. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "gang": gangbanger, gangbangers, gangbuster, gangbusters, ganged, ganger, gangers, ganging, gangland, ganglands, ganglia, ganglial, gangliar, ganglier, gangliest, gangling, ganglion, ganglionated, ganglionic, ganglions, ganglioside, gangliosides, gangly, gangplank, gangplanks, gangplow, gangplows, gangrel, gangrels, gangrene, gangrened, gangrenes, gangrening, gangrenous, gangs, gangster, gangsterdom, gangsterdoms, gangsterish, gangsterism, gangsterisms, gangsters, gangue, gangues, gangway, gangways. (additional references)

Words ending with "gang": intergang. (additional references)

Words containing "gang": doppelganger, doppelgangers, postganglionic, preganglionic. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gang" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aang, agn, ang, Gaan, Ga'g, gagg, gana, gand, gangi, Gani, Ganj, gank, ganna, gant, Ganu, gany, ganz, garg, gaug, gcn, gegn, geng, genh, genug, genx, geong, ghang, gign, Ginga, gna, gnaa, gnab, gnac, gnau, gnaz, grang, Guangyi, gunga, gungy, gwan, gyaan, nang, Nganga, Ngango, ogg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gag, gan, nag.

-2 letters: ag, an, na.

+1 letter: aging, gangs, naggy.

+2 letters: ageing, agings, caging, engage, gaeing, gaging, gagman, gagmen, gaming, ganged, ganger, gangly, gangue, gaping, gating, gazing, gingal, gobang, grange, nagged, nagger, paging, raging, snaggy, waggon, waging.

+3 letters: ageings, agelong, anagoge, anagogy, angling, argling, arguing, badging, bagging, banging, barging, cadging, danging, engaged, engager, engages, fadging, fagging, gabbing, gabling, gadding, gaffing, gagging, gaining, gaiting, galling, gamings, gamming, gangers, ganging, ganglia, gangrel, gangues, gangway, gaoling, gapping, garbing, garring, gashing, gasking, gasping, gassing, gasting, gauging, gauming, gawking, gawping, gearing, gigaton, gingall, gingals, gingham, gingiva, glaring, glazing, gnawing, goading, goaling, gobangs, gracing, grading, granger, granges, grating, graving, graying, grazing, hagging, hangdog, hanging, hangtag, imaging, jagging, lagging, naggers, naggier, nagging, pagings, panging, parging, ragging, ranging, sagging, signage, snagged, staging, swaging, synagog, tagging, tanging, unaging, wagging, waggons, yeggman, zagging.