Definition of "gang" []

• 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)
• Informal A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis: The whole gang from the office went to a clambake. (noun)
• A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson: a railroad gang. (noun)
• A matched or coordinated set, as of tools: a gang of chisels. (noun)

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• ""My impression is that this is the work of a gang -- a _gang_.""
• "We have a conspiracy among unscrupulous breeders to obtain this valuable cat, and hence, sir, we have a gang -- a _gang_. ""
• "KING: And they were -- who gave them the term gang of five?"