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black gang
noun- collectively, a ship’s engineer’s department US, 1895
- — J. E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, p. 177, 1992
- an aviation mechanics team CANADA
The source of the term is likely to be their black overalls. - “Black gang,” for airplane mechanics, seems to have been coined by Alan Bill, Winnipeg Tribune, reporting on the search and rescue of the MacApline Expedition in the Canadian Arctic. — Lewis Poteet, Plane Talk, p. 31, 1997
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