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gang noun- a work crew US
Still heard on occasion, but largely replaced with the standard English “crew”. - I’m finished at Standard Federal. They want to put me on the detail gang, plumbing up. I said no way, I’m a connector[.] — Elmore Leonard, Killshot, p. 44, 1989
- a person’s social group UK, 1945
From earlier conventional senses. - a great many US, 1811
- We spent a gang of mornings after that trying to learn the number[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 13, 1946
- He give them a coupla hundred thousand and he get us a gang of dope. — Leon Bing, Do or Die, p. 34, 1991
- He pushed so hard my booty landed a gang of feet from where I was standing. — Linden Dalecki, Kid B, p. 26, 2006
- marijuana BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 85, 1982
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