Definition of "gangdom" [gang•dom]

• Criminal organizations, collectively. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "His creator, sickened by the increase of crime decided, in 1931, to create a detective who could deal with gangdom via what he called "the hot lead route.""
• "The anguish on Jingles 'brutish face was genuine and everyone in gangdom was well aware of his devotion to Gun Moll."
• "It came when the hated snitch -- for gangdom hates the informer worse than anything else dead or alive -- had turned a sufficiently dark and deserted corner."