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gang English

Meaning gang meaning

What does gang mean?
Definitions in simple English

gang Noun

— A gang is a group of criminals that work together. These criminals are often called gangsters. — A gang is a group of people who spend time together. Often they are similar to each other and share interests.

gang Verb

— If you gang up, you make a group, you band together, usually against a single person or cause.

gang

— noun (= pack) an association of criminals police tried to break up the gang a pack of thieves — noun (= crowd) an informal body of friends he still hangs out with the same crowd — noun an organized group of workmen — noun tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together — verb act as an organized group

Synonyms gang synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as gang?

gang English » English

band group party crowd crew company pack mob set clique team ring flock faction cluster bunch work party troupe squad partisans friends followers assembly swarm political party partner horde herd gangsters gang up friend coterie conspirators collection body bevy association army whorl volute unitized unite unit type troops train throng system street gang spiral

Topics gang topics

What do people use gang to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Crowd, group
Physical actions Arrange

Gather

Conjugation gang conjugation

How do you conjugate gang?

gang · verb

Examples gang examples

How do I use gang in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must steer clear of that gang.
A gang of three robbed the bank in broad daylight.
A gang of thieves broke into the bank.
The gang was planning a robbery.
The gang knocked him down and robbed him of his watch.
The cops are looking for the gang's hideout.
Tom was killed by his own gang members.
I'm in a gang.
Tom looked like a motorcycle gang member.
Tom is a gang member.
Tom has joined a gang.
Tom is in a gang.
Lander assumes that rioting and gang behavior are a result of poverty and poor economic conditions.
Somebody tipped off the gang members to the police surveillance.
Tom seems to be a member of a gang.
My great-grandfather was the leader of a gang.
The gang is all here.
My great-grandfather was a gang leader.
There's a gang of tough kids on this street.
The gang met up at the city dump.
He was attacked by a gang. They beat him and took away his wallet.
In the Torah Lot offers his virgin daughter's to be gang raped.
He was involved in a skirmish with a violent gang.

Movie subtitles

It is just a gang of thugs who steal and mutilate women for no reason!
Well, it looks like another one for our little gang.
Paulet and Eleve, the other gang members were arrested for vagrancy.
A great throng of people attended, eager to see brought to justice the last member of the Mauprat gang.
Once in a gang.
Olga you can't go back on a gang.
Little Arnie's gang is out to put one in him.
And I kind of took pride in you, Joe brought you into the gang, pushed you ahead.
You're still in my gang, you got that?
That gang must go.
It was Rico's gang that held up the Bronze Peacock.
Round up that Palermo gang.
Well, just the same, he was the real leader of that gang.
Only I don't understand why you are covering up for the gang who left you in the lurch. Funny friends!
The head of this gang of wild fellows, of noble robbers, is Alviano Salvago.
He's got to put his okay on my gang, or he's gonna get this.
Not before I get your okay on my gang.
You'll have to fight it out with Butch and the gang.
So you got your gang with you?
And if bud and his gang think they can change that by bombing us, they're going to be sorely mistaken. Yeah. Real sorely.
Ri Gang Seok doesn't have much strength.
Hello. I'm Korean People's Army's Defense Department's First Lieutenant, Ri Gang Seok.
Did you attempt to kill Korean King the 3rd Lee Jae Gang and Queen Bak Hyeon Ju?
We're not a gang.
Say, you don't happen to belong to that gang out there in that boat, do you?
I'm gonna bring the gang up.
Well, this job has all the earmarks of that gang you were mixed up with in New York.
And one of my men was killed trying to round up your gang.
The gang's following us in that black sedan.
Come on, gang, let's go.
Hey, Eddie, the panhandling gang is waiting for you.
Let's go, gang.

News and current affairs

Countering narco-gang violence includes working with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim to develop tools that allow ordinary citizens to report violence anonymously by text message and enable police to map the results.
What about the Stern gang's blowing up of Jerusalem's King David Hotel in order to liberate Palestine from the British?
In Nigeria, the Islamic militia Boko Haram - a glorified gang of criminals - brings disgrace on the Prophet, in the name of whom they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls to sell or use as sex slaves.
It needs only one gang of politicians.
More unfortunate still was his implication that this was the cause of a series of gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which the attackers' legal defense was that they thought the women were sexually available because they wore Western clothes.
Yet, engaged in a war driven by fury and vengeance, the Israelis are now focused again on a manhunt for gang chieftains, targeted killings of Hamas squads, and the arrest of its political leaders, not on peace overtures.
A prominent democracy activist, Esraa Abdel Fattah, has denounced Morsi's party as a gang of foreign-backed terrorists.
Cameron's most important objective is ensuring that euro members cannot gang up on the UK and other non-euro countries.
Thousands of young people continue to lose their lives in gang wars.
As the two lawyers were traveling on a bus, a gang of men, some of them wielding metal pipes, boarded it and brutally assaulted them.
India currently is reeling from news that a 20-year-old woman was gang-raped by 13 men on orders from a West Bengali village court for having a relationship with a man from another village.
The French turned out, en masse, to say that they did not want to see the Le Pen gang take possession of their regions.
On his way to the Crimea, however, Putin encountered a notorious Russian nationalist motorcycle gang, whose members demand that the Crimea be transferred to Russia.
Kibaki's opponents took to the streets, the government issued shoot-to-kill orders, and hundreds have died at the hands of the police as well as from gang rampages and inter-ethnic violence.
Ri Je-gang, a senior Workers' Party director, was killed in a bizarre car crash on June 2.
Honduras, the country with the most serious gang problem, never had a civil war.
Nicaragua and Mexico, which receive many deportees from the United States, have never had the number of gang members seen in El Salvador and Guatemala.
Gang members emerge out of dysfunctional and violent families, the historic and systematic socioeconomic marginalization of the region's poor, and a culture of aggression.
For many years, officials simply ignored the emerging gang problem.
Six villagers in the Hebei village of Dingzhou, protesting government seizure of their land, died after bloody clashes with a gang of toughs in July.
By 2015, however, the US Department of Justice identified the perpetrators as a sophisticated criminal gang led by two Israelis and an American citizen who lives in Moscow and Tel Aviv.
For many years, officials simply ignored the emerging gang problem. They were more interested in the process of political transition and putting in place the Washington Consensus.
This gives each gang an opportunity to recruit new members among prison inmates, elect national leaders, and establish lines of authority and decision-making that are respected by all.
In Honduras, the gangs are more connected with organized crime, because the policy of cleaning the streets has pushed many gang members to align with drug traffickers for protection.
And now the gangs appear to be invading southern Mexico, because Central America's repressive policies have sent many gang members running north.
Across the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo, government soldiers, members of renegade government military units, and myriad militias are gang raping untold thousands of women.
My homeland has become a place where too many people are victims, succumbing to a virus, or gunned down by a drug-trafficker; assaulted by a robber, shot by an ill-trained policeman, or kidnapped by a member of a criminal gang.

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