gang1 noungang2 verb
ganggang1 /ɡæŋ/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINgang1
Origin:
Old English ‘way, journey’; the modern meaning comes from the idea of a group of people "going" togetherEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a motorcycle gang
- Fighting broke out between two rival gangs.
- Inner-city kids often join gangs for protection, and for the chance to make money by selling drugs.
- It is not just gang members who get into trouble - it's middle-class and upper-class kids as well.
- Police say an armed gang stole nearly $1.9 million in a bank robbery over the weekend.
- Several gang members have been questioned about the shooting.
- She went with Sarah and Jacquie and the gang.
- There are always gangs of kids hanging around the shopping mall.
- Warning: gangs of pickpockets operate in this area.
- But he was really his own gang.
- Detectives yesterday carried out house-to-house enquiries in the hope of tracking the gang.
- If it was a member of Connelly's gang it made no sense, yet who else would know about the shipment?
- Jesse Wood, 15, was kicked and slashed by a drunken gang at Richmond, London, last Christmas.
- Police believe it was taken by a professional gang of at least four, stealing to order.
- This is the guy who, in the first half, was moving as gracefully and quickly as an Alabama chain gang.
THESAURUSof people
several people together in the same place: · A group of boys stood by the school gate.· Arrange yourselves in groups of three.
a large group of people who have come to a place to do something: · There were crowds of shoppers in the streets.· The crowd all cheered.
a large, noisy, and perhaps violent crowd: · An angry mob of demonstrators approached.
a large group of people all close together in one place, so that they seem like a single thing: · The square in front of the station was a solid mass of people.
informal a group of people who are all similar in some way: · They’re a nice bunch of kids.
a group of young people, especially a group that often causes trouble and fights: · He was attacked by a gang of youths.
a noisy group of people who are behaving badly: · He was met by a rabble of noisy angry youths.
a very large group of people who all go somewhere: · In summer hordes of tourists flock to the island.· There were hordes of people coming out of the subway.
a group of people who all work together, especially on a ship or plane: · the ship’s crew· The flight crew will serve drinks shortly.
a group of people who are travelling or working together: · A party of tourists stood at the entrance to the temple.
Longman Language Activatora group of criminals a group of criminals who work together: · Warning: gangs of pickpockets operate in this area.· Police say an armed gang stole nearly $1.9 million in a bank robbery over the weekend.
a group of people who work together and organize an illegal trade, especially in something such as drugs or weapons: · Drug rings operate in most large cities of the world.· Corvino was the sixth member of the spy ring to be arrested for stealing high-tech secrets from several Silicon Valley firms.
a large and powerful organization that controls illegal businesses and criminal activities: · The syndicates see these women as easy candidates to force into the sex trade.
large criminal organizations that plan and control serious crime such as robbing banks or selling drugs: · The police need more resources to combat organized crime.
the group of secret organizations that plan and organize crime in a particular city: · Owen has been active in the Las Vegas underworld for years.· He's accused of having connections with Japan's criminal underworld.
a group of friends also circle the people you know, especially a group of friends who all know each other and often meet socially: · He had a large circle of friends.· Since my children have started school, my circle has widened to include the mothers of other kids.
spoken a group of male or female friends who often do things together: · Sally's having a night out with the girls from the office.· It's his poker night with the boys.
informal a small group of friends who often meet socially: · I usually go out with the gang on Saturday nights.one of the gang (=accepted into the group of friends): · She's not really one of the gang, but I invited her to the party.
informal a group of friends who often do things or go out together: · He wasn't with his usual crowd last night.· It may be necessary to change your child's school if they get in with a bad crowd.
: the tennis/golf club/arty etc set a group of friends who meet socially, especially because they are all interested in the same sport or activity, especially an expensive one: · She likes to mingle with the arty set.
a group of people who know each other, and will help each other, even if this means being slightly dishonest: · Weiss was careful not to upset his political cronies.· Her father is probably in the bar, drinking with his cronies.
a group of people who do things together · The tickets are expensive, but there is a discount for school groups.group of · A group of us went out for a drink to celebrate Sonia's birthday.in groups · Robberies were common on the lonely roads, so people usually travelled in groups.in groups of three/four etc · We were warned not to walk in the mountains except in groups of three or more.
a group of people that someone has organized in order to go somewhere or do something: · A party of Japanese businessmen will be visiting the factory next week.party of: · John was taking a party of tourists around the museum.a search/rescue party (=a group of people trying to find and help someone who is in danger): · The climbers did not return, and a search party was sent out to look for them.
especially spoken, informal a group of people who do things together or spend time together: · The people on my French course are a really friendly bunch.bunch/crowd of: · There was the usual crowd of students standing at the bar.· Willy's band is playing tonight, and I invited a bunch of people to come along
a group of young people who spend time together, especially a group that causes trouble, fights with other groups etc: · Inner-city kids often join gangs for protection, and for the chance to make money by selling drugs.gang of youths/kids: · There are always gangs of kids hanging around the shopping mall.gang member/leader: · It is not just gang members who get into trouble - it's middle-class and upper-class kids as well.rival gang (=a gang that fights with another gang): · Fighting broke out between two rival gangs.
a group of people representing a particular country, organization, belief etc: · Not surprisingly, there was a large student contingent at the demonstration.· There was a large American contingent, including the Olympic bronze medallist, Thomas Jefferson. contingent of: · A small contingent of English fans had made the trip to Sydney to support their team.
WORD SETSabet, verbaccusation, nounaccuse, verbaffray, nounarson, nounassault, nounassault and battery, nounbackhander, nounbattery, nounbigamy, nounblack market, nounblack marketeer, nounbreak-in, nounbreaking and entering, nouncaper, nouncapital, adjectivecarjacking, nouncat burglar, nouncontract, nouncosh, nouncounterfeit, adjectivecounterfeit, verbcover, nouncrack, verbcriminal, adjectivecriminal, nouncriminal law, nouncriminal record, nouncriminology, nouncrook, nounculpable, adjectiveculprit, noundefamation, noundefraud, verbdelinquency, noundelinquent, adjectivedelinquent, noundesperado, noundisorderly, adjectivedrug baron, noundrug runner, nounDUI, nounembezzle, verbexpropriate, verbextort, verbeyewitness, nounfelon, nounfelony, nounfence, nounfiddle, nounfiddle, verbfiddler, nounfilch, verbfinger, verbfire-raising, nounfirst offender, nounflash, verbflasher, nounforge, verbforger, nounforgery, nounfoul play, nounframe, verbframe-up, nounfratricide, nounfraud, nounfreebooter, noungang, noungang-bang, noungang rape, noungangster, nounGBH, noungenocide, noungetaway, noungodfather, noungrand larceny, noungrass, noungrievous bodily harm, nounheist, nounhijack, verbhijack, nounhijacking, nounhit, nounhit-and-run, adjectivehit man, nounincriminate, verbindecent assault, nounindecent exposure, nouninfanticide, nounjob, nounjoyriding, nounjuvenile delinquent, nounkidnap, verblarceny, nounlibel, nounlibel, verblibellous, adjectivelow life, nounmafioso, nounmalpractice, nounmanslaughter, nounmassacre, nounmassacre, verbmatricide, nounmisappropriate, verbmisconduct, nounmisdeed, nounmisdemeanour, nounmobster, nounmoll, nounmug, verbmugshot, nounmurder, nounmurder, verbmurderer, nounmurderess, nounmuscleman, nounnark, nounnefarious, adjectiveneighbourhood watch, nounnick, verbno-go area, nounoffence, nounoffend, verboffender, nounold lag, nounorganized crime, nounoutlaw, nounparricide, nounpatricide, nounpetty larceny, nounPhotofit, nounpiracy, nounplant, verbpoach, verbpoacher, nounpossession, nounprivateer, nounprotection, nounprowl, verbprowler, nounpublic nuisance, nounpull, verbpunk, nounpurloin, verbraid, nounram-raiding, nounrape, verbrape, nounrapist, nounravish, verbreceiver, nounreceiving, nounrecidivist, nounregicide, nounring, nounringleader, nounriotous, adjectiverob, verbrobber, nounrobbery, nounroll, verbrustler, nounscheme, nounscheme, verbshady, adjectiveshoplift, verbshoplifting, nounslander, nounsmuggle, verbsnout, nounspeeding, nounstabbing, nounstalking, nounstatutory offence, nounstatutory rape, nounsteal, verbstoolpigeon, nounsupergrass, nounsuspect, nounswag, nountheft, nounthief, nounthievish, adjectivetorch, verbtraffic, nountrafficker, nountriad, noununder-the-counter, adjectiveunderworld, nounundesirable, nounvagrancy, nounvandal, nounvandalism, nounvandalize, verbvice, nounvigilante, nounvillainy, nounviolate, verbviolation, nounwanted, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + gang
the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl
1 a)a group of young people who spend time together, and who are often involved in crime or drugs and who often fight against other groups: · He had links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs.
(=with guns)· An armed gang stole jewels worth more than five million pounds.
· Fighting between rival gangs left dozens of people injured.
(=which spends a lot of time on the streets)· He belonged to a notorious street gang which terrorized a Chicago suburb.
· At age nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in his neighborhood, just to survive.
gang + NOUN· Gang members are thought to be responsible for up to 20% of murders in the city.
· Gang leaders used cellphones to order the attacks.
· Residents say that gang violence is common.
(=fighting between gangs)· Gang warfare is wrecking the neighborhood.
(=crime committed by gangs)· The initiative aims to cut gang crime in Los Angeles.
· In most areas, gun crime is linked to gang activity.
verbs· He was only eight when he joined the gang.
· Eleven men belonging to a local gang were arrested.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl· The street is a war zone between two rival gangs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· An armed gang has stolen jewels worth more than five million pounds from London's Hatton Garden.· Between the 1740s and the 1820s, Romney Marsh was openly terrorized by armed gangs of smugglers.
· The island is also the traditional recruiting ground for criminal gangs along the Riviera.· Behind the glitzy shopping arcades, ethnic criminal gangs fight for territory.· Interestingly neither of these two people were sociologists, though sociologists have carried out participant studies amongst homosexuals and criminal gangs.· Mr Samra said both men were wanted for involvement with criminal gangs in Bombay.· The police have also taken on the football hooligans, the hippies, and the criminal gangs.· The reason for the affray is unclear, though a police spokesman played down any suggestion of feuding between criminal gangs.· Like all criminal gangs, Famlio specializes in profiting from human weaknesses such as pleasure, greed and fear.
· The youth charged in his murder was a 16-year-old black gang member from the Newhallville section of New Haven.· The old gangs proved more efficient than the newcomers.· He had not seen her for three years, but meeting all the old gang again had rekindled his curiosity.· Others, however, find that an older generation of gang members has been beneficial in keeping younger kids from joining gangs.· There, for years, to the peak of Paradise, we resorted every day, the old gang.· Some of the old Showtime gang will surely attend.
· Looking out over the crowd, I could see members of rival gangs.· The school is in the thick of a war zone between two rival gangs.· Martinez was convicted of ordering the murder of rival gang member Richard Serrano at a Montebello auto body shop in November 1998.· The violence began outside a chip shop when rival gangs clashed.· His life is devoted to fights with rival gangs, stabbing, mugging, drinking and taking drugs.· Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs.· The film is about rival immigrant gangs vying for control of 1850s New York.
· He had everything he needed to arrest the whole gang.· In an instant the whole gang of flashing boys swept in.· Their duty done, the whole gang ran as fast as possible back to the engine and gathered in the cab.· The whole gang became a bright and then a brighter set of luminous forms.· There was a whole gang of us who went out together at the weekends.· See you later with the whole gang, right?· We would keep surveillance and follow the person who collects it, hoping to apprehend the whole gang and rescue Fontaine.
NOUN· President Clinton promptly announced a law to crack down on juvenile criminals and a new computer database to track gang activity.· Although the school is virtually gang-free, most of its students live in the Mission area and encounter gang activity every day.· Tracy Thompson grew up in Skyline, where gang activity was strong.
· He did a stint on a chain gang, and he became a professional boxer for a while.· Citizens have loved his reintroduction of the chain gang and the Army-surplus tents he erected to ease jail overcrowding.· Tethered like a chain gang, the herd is led away between koonkies.
· A religious pilgrimage ended with three men being stabbed in a gang fight on a beach.
· Malvin Antario looks like a gang leader from Los Angeles.· Alfred, a gang leader, had never been to college and was already married with a child on the way.· A gang leader could hope to rise up the hierarchy of a hive.· He was a gang leader, the most resourceful designer and executor of all manner of dangerous fun.· The gang leader will share the balance of the payment either equally or by an agreed formula between the core members.· Within two weeks gang leader Michael McAvoy and Brian Robinson were behind bars after a suspect cracked.
· She explains why these girls need love, direction, education, a way out of the lures of gang life.· Pedro went on to describe the rhythm of gang life.· Riccy was born into a gang life that has sent both his father and brother to prison for murder.· After 2 1 / 2 years of gang life, Dee got pregnant.
· The gang members moved down the alley, their guns loaded and ready.· The gang members, the hit men in here are at the top of their tree.· In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint.· Knight has repeatedly denied ever being a gang member.· Brown received much heat for his proposal last month that gang members patrol the 14 Mission line.· He later said the plan was to recruit former gang members and other neighborhood youths.
· The governor also expects increases in funding for K-12 education to have a long-term positive effect on gang problems, Tremblay said.
· It follows Operation Orchid, a police investigation into missing boys after a gang rape murder in London.· Often, they said, a captive woman would try to attach herself to one leader to avoid repeated gang rape.
· They asked: were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible?
· His father's death touched off a minor gang war.· Somebody in the rackets gets a bullet in him, people holler gang war.
· They become so excited during this gang warfare that humans can approach them much more closely than at other times.· As you see, the perfect recipe for gang warfare.· Dexter's interest lies not in gang warfare, but in the character of Peter Flood.· By 2015, bitter enmities played themselves out in gang warfare, narcotics traffic, and addiction.· This was gang warfare of a thoroughly nasty kind.· This was no jailhouse rock, this was gang warfare.· The gang warfare ripping through the shanties is fuelled by what has replaced politics after Aristide: prostitution, drugs and ritual.· Black and Latino Angelenos living in this area experienced joblessness, gang warfare, urban blight.
· At nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in the neighborhood.
VERB· Against a background of murder and intimidation, armed gangs of young men took over.· Another armed gang made off with £4,500 from the Holywood branch of the Credit Union at the end of November.
· Witness intimidation in cases involving gangs and drugs has been hampering many criminal prosecutions, the Justice Department report said.· She was a nice girl, but she was involved in gangs.
· The authorities fail to offer prisoners protection from being attacked by others; joining the gang offers this protection.· For his class, he seeks high school seniors who may be at risk of joining gangs.· But after escaping to join another gang, Devi carried out a singular form of retribution.· Others, however, find that an older generation of gang members has been beneficial in keeping younger kids from joining gangs.· In London he had joined gangs who had thrown rotten tomatoes, eggs or whatever was at hand into Salvation Army meetings.· Riccy recalls the first time he asked to join a gang.· He pressed me to join his gang.· And joining Spike's gang doesn't come cheap.
· I've tae meet the gang at Kenmore Street the noo.· They met the gang of shepherds going west and all went in together and knelt down at the manger.· He had not seen her for three years, but meeting all the old gang again had rekindled his curiosity.
· Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men.· Once he had seen a girl set upon by a gang of other girls on a descending escalator.· Appleton has now set up a gang task force.
· It is even possible that gang infiltration can be stopped.
two rival street gangsgang member/member of a gang The parents have denied that their son is a gang member. the problem of inner-city gang violence a victim of gang warfare b)a group of young people together in one place, especially young people who might cause troublegang of There were always gangs of kids hanging around the mall.► see thesaurus at group2a group of criminals who work together: Several gangs were operating in the area. Armed gangs have hijacked lorries.gang of a gang of smugglers3informal a group of friends, especially young people: The whole gang will be there next weekend.4a group of workers or prisoners doing physical work together → chain gangCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + ganga criminal gang· He had links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs.an armed gang (=with guns)· An armed gang stole jewels worth more than five million pounds.a rival gang· Fighting between rival gangs left dozens of people injured.a street gang (=which spends a lot of time on the streets)· He belonged to a notorious street gang which terrorized a Chicago suburb.a teenage/youth gang· At age nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in his neighborhood, just to survive.gang + NOUNa gang member/a member of a gang· Gang members are thought to be responsible for up to 20% of murders in the city.a gang leader· Gang leaders used cellphones to order the attacks.gang violence· Residents say that gang violence is common.gang warfare (=fighting between gangs)· Gang warfare is wrecking the neighborhood.gang crime (=crime committed by gangs)· The initiative aims to cut gang crime in Los Angeles.gang activity· In most areas, gun crime is linked to gang activity.verbsjoin a gang· He was only eight when he joined the gang.belong to a gang· Eleven men belonging to a local gang were arrested.gang1 noungang2 verb
ganggang2 verb VERB TABLE
gang
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | gang |
| he, she, it | gangs | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | ganged |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have ganged |
| he, she, it | has ganged | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had ganged |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will gang |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have ganged |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am ganging |
| he, she, it | is ganging | |
| you, we, they | are ganging | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was ganging |
| you, we, they | were ganging | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been ganging |
| he, she, it | has been ganging | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been ganging |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be ganging |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been ganging |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- All your recurrent fears of the world ganging up on you came to the surface, and you ran away.
- First then, why did genes gang up in cells?
- Now, however, there are worrying signs that the two biggest firms are ganging up on the rest.
- Sometimes friends gang up on you.
- Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl
gang together phrasal verb if people gang together, they form a group in order to do something together, especially to oppose something: the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl· The street is a war zone between two rival gangs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Now, however, there are worrying signs that the two biggest firms are ganging up on the rest.· They were ganging up the patrols where they had had some action.· Sometimes friends gang up on you.· Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in?· Why did genes gang up in cells?· Why did cells gang up in many-celled bodies?· The Harpies are vicious, hungry creatures who will gang up on any isolated individual.
The smaller shopkeepers ganged together to beat off competition from the supermarkets.gang up on/against somebody phrasal verb if people gang up on someone, they join together to attack, criticize, or oppose them, especially in a way that seems unfair: Schoolchildren are quick to gang up on anyone who looks or behaves differently.