a group or band: A gang of boys gathered around the winning pitcher.
a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely, often exclusively, for social reasons, especially such a group engaging in delinquent behavior.
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.
a group of persons working together; squad; shift: a gang of laborers.
a group of persons associated for some criminal or other antisocial purpose: a gang of thieves.
a set of tools, electronic components or circuits, oars, etc., arranged to work together or simultaneously.
a group of identical or related items.
verb (used with object)
to arrange in groups or sets; form into a gang: to gang illustrations for more economical printing on one sheet.
to attack in a gang.
verb (used without object)
to form or act as a gang: Cutthroats who gang together hang together.
Verb Phrases
gang up on,Informal. (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.
Origin of gang
1
1300–50; Middle English; Old English gang, gong manner of going, way, passage; cognate with Old High German gang,Old Norse gangr,Gothic gagg;cf. gang2
verb (used without object)Chiefly Scot.and North England.
to walk or go.
Origin of gang
2
before 900; Middle English gangen,Old English gangan, gongan; cognate with Old High German gangan,Old Norse ganga,Gothic gaggan;cf. gang1, noun derivative from same base