Word Study
gang
CIDE DICTIONARY
gang, v. i. [AS. gangan, akin to OS. & OHG. gangan, Icel. ganga, Goth. gaggan; cf. Lith. to walk, Skr. ja leg. Go.].
To go; to walk. [1913 Webster]
" Obsolete in English literature, but still used in the North of England, and also in Scotland." [1913 Webster]
gang, n. [Icel. gangr a going, gang, akin to AS., D., G., & Dan. gang a going, Goth. gaggs street, way. See Gang, v. i. ].
- A going; a course. [1913 Webster]
- A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves. [1913 Webster]
- A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows. [1913 Webster]
- A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays. [1913 Webster]
- The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue. [1913 Webster]
- A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen gang; a youth gang; a street gang."Youth
gangs often associate with particular areas in a city, and may turn violent when they feel their territory is encroached upon. In Los Angeles theCrips and theBloods are large gangs antagonistic to each other." [PJC] - A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization; as, the Parker gang. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gang, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a band of persons acting or going about together, esp. for criminal purposes. b colloq. such a band pursuing a purpose causing disapproval.
2 a set of workers, slaves, or prisoners.
3 a set of tools arranged to work simultaneously.
--v.tr. arrange (tools etc.) to work in coordination.
--n.
1 a a band of persons acting or going about together, esp. for criminal purposes. b colloq. such a band pursuing a purpose causing disapproval.
2 a set of workers, slaves, or prisoners.
3 a set of tools arranged to work simultaneously.
--v.tr. arrange (tools etc.) to work in coordination.
Idiom
gang-bang sl. an occasion on which several men successively have sexual intercourse with one woman. gang up colloq.
1 (often foll. by with) act in concert.
2 (foll. by on) combine against.
1 (often foll. by with) act in concert.
2 (foll. by on) combine against.
gang, v.intr. Sc. go.
Idiom
gang agley (of a plan etc.) go wrong.
Etymology
OE gangan: cf. GANG(1)
THESAURUS
gang
Bund, Rochdale cooperative, affiliate, age group, alliance, ally, army, assemblage, associate, association, axis, band, band together, battalion, be in cahoots, bevy, bloc, body, brigade, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cast, cement a union, centralize, circle, clique, club, club together, coalition, cohort, college, colony, combination, combine, come together, common market, commute, company, complement, confederacy, confederate, confederation, consociate, conspire, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, coterie, council, couple, course, cover ground, covey, credit union, crew, crowd, customs union, detachment, detail, division, drift, drive, drove, economic community, employees, faction, fare, fare forth, federalize, federate, federation, fetch, fleet, flit, flock, flow, force, free trade area, gam, gang up, go, go along, go in partners, go in partnership, group, grouping, groupment, help, herd, hie, hired help, hook up with, host, in-group, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, junta, kennel, league, litter, machine, marry, men, mob, move, move along, move on, movement, organize, out-group, outfit, overwhelm, pack, pair, pair off, partner, partnership, party, pass, peer group, personnel, phalanx, platoon, pod, political machine, posse, pride, progress, regiment, retinue, ring, roll, roll on, run, salon, sashay, school, servantry, set, shoal, skulk, sloth, society, squad, stable, staff, stand together, stand up with, stream, string, team, team up with, team with, the help, throw in with, tie in with, tie up with, travel, tribe, trip, troop, troupe, union, unionize, unite with, wayfare, wed, wend, wingROGET THESAURUS
gang
Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, 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, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.Party
N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.Thief
N thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.Motion
VB be in motion, 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, walk, change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters, dodge, keep going, keep moving, put in motion, set in motion, move, impel, propel, render movable, mobilize.For further exploring for "gang" in Webster Dictionary Online
