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Definition: Press Gang |
Press GangNoun1. A detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jurisdiction | Press gang; exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A comedy/drama, the show was notable for the high quality and sophistication of the writing, as well as the chemistry between the two lead actors, Julia Sawalha who played the tough-as-nails editor Lynda Day, and Dexter Fletcher, playing a wise-cracking American reporter, and a great supporting cast. Aimed at older children and teenagers, the writers took a sophisticated approach to the comedy, the various issues thrown up by the storylines (including child sexual abuse, firearms, and death as well as the more mundane fare of interpersonal relationships), and drawing out multifaceted characters, to the point where the screening network became concerned that the program was too sophisticated for its intended audience.
The show was devised by writer Steven Moffat and directed by Bob Spiers (a noted British comedy director).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Press Gang."
Crosswords: Press Gang |
| English words defined with "press gang": Impress gang ♦ Pressgang. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Press Gang (1989) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the press gang | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "press gang"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rekrutues me dhunë, fut me zor (drum), fus me zor (drum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محترف الصحافة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | racoleur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prespatrouille, werber (adman, advertiser, advertising man, canvasser, recruiter, solicitor, suitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | erõszakos torzulást végzõ különítmény. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | costringere (cause, coerce, compel, constrain, enforce, force, impose, make, pin down, push, will). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skimmee preatsagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esspray anggay отряд вербовщиков, насильно вербовать. (various references) odred za nasilno uzimanje u mornaricu, nasilno uzimati u mornaricu. (various references) patrulla de enganche. (various references) trupp utsänd för att pressa militär personal. (various references) zorla asker toplama bölüğü, baskı yapma. (various references) загін вербувальників у флот. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-n-p-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: aggress, gangers, gaspers, granges, naggers, saggers, sangers, seggars, sparges, sprangs. | |
-3 letters: aggers, angers, arpens, aspens, aspers, eggars, gagers, ganger, gapers, gasper, gasser, grange, grapes, grasps, nagger, pagers, parges, parses, passer, prangs, prases, ranges, repass, sagger, sanger, sarges, sarsen, seggar, snares, sneaps, spares, sparge, sparse, speans, spears, sprags, sprang. | |
-4 letters: agers, agger, anger, apers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-n-p-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: gingersnaps. | |
+3 letters: graspingness, preassigning. | |
+4 letters: glasspapering. | |
+5 letters: gelandesprungs, graspingnesses. | |
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