Gang

English Meaning

To go; to walk.

1. A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.
2. A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.
3. Informal A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis: The whole gang from the office went to a clambake.
4. A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson: a railroad gang.
5. A matched or coordinated set, as of tools: a gang of chisels.
6. A pack of wolves or wild dogs.
7. A herd, especially of buffalo or elk. See Synonyms at flock1.
8. To band together as a group or gang.
9. To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production: gang several pages onto one printing plate.
10. To attack as an organized group.
11. gang up To join together in opposition or attack: The older children were always ganging up on the little ones.
12. gang up To act together as a group: various agencies ganging up to combat the use of illicit drugs.
13. Variant of gangue.