Gang (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a group or band: A gang of boys gathered around the winning pitcher.
  2. a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely, often exclusively, for social reasons, especially such a group engaging in delinquent behavior.
  3. a group of people with compatible tastes or mutual interests who gather together for social reasons: I'm throwing a party for the gang I bowl with.
  4. a group of persons working together; squad; shift: a gang of laborers.
  5. a group of persons associated for some criminal or other antisocial purpose: a gang of thieves.
  6. a set of tools, electronic components or circuits, oars, etc., arranged to work together or simultaneously.
  7. a group of identical or related items.
verb (used with object)
  1. to arrange in groups or sets; form into a gang: to gang illustrations for more economical printing on one sheet.
  2. to attack in a gang.
verb (used without object)
  1. to form or act as a gang: Cutthroats who gang together hang together.
Verb Phrases
  1. (of a number of persons) to unite in opposition to (a person); combine against: The bigger boys ganged up on the smaller ones in the schoolyard.
verb (used without object) Chiefly Scot. and North England.
  1. to walk or go.
noun
  1. a group of people who associate together or act as an organized body, esp for criminal or illegal purposes
  2. an organized group of workmen
  3. a herd of buffaloes or elks or a pack of wild dogs
  4. a group of shearers who travel to different shearing sheds, shearing, classing, and baling wool
    • a series of similar tools arranged to work simultaneously in parallel
    • (as modifier)
verb
  1. to form into, become part of, or act as a gang
  2. to mount (two or more components, such as variable capacitors) on the same shaft, permitting adjustment by a single control
verb
  1. to go
noun
  1. a variant spelling of gangue
Gang (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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