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press-gang1 verbpress-gang2 noun press-gangˈpress-gang1 verb [transitive] VERB TABLEpress-gang |
Present | I, you, we, they | press-gang | | he, she, it | press-gangs | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | press-ganged | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have press-ganged | | he, she, it | has press-ganged | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had press-ganged | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will press-gang | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have press-ganged |
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Present | I | am press-ganging | | he, she, it | is press-ganging | | you, we, they | are press-ganging | Past | I, he, she, it | was press-ganging | | you, we, they | were press-ganging | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been press-ganging | | he, she, it | has been press-ganging | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been press-ganging | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be press-ganging | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been press-ganging |
1press-gang somebody into doing something informal to force someone to do something: I don’t want to press-gang you into doing something you’re not happy with.2to force men to work on a ship, by taking them from the streets – done in the pastpress-gang1 verbpress-gang2 noun press-gangpress-gang2 noun [countable] a group of people in the past who took young men away using force in order to make them come to work on a ship |