Definitions for gang

• Definition
• Anagrams (16)

gang gang

Spelling: [gang]

IPA: /gæŋ/

Gang is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in gang (aggn).

Definitions for gang

noun

1. a group or band:
2. a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely, often exclusively, for social reasons, especially such a group engaging in delinquent behavior.
3. a group of people with compatible tastes or mutual interests who gather together for social reasons:
4. a group of persons working together; squad; shift:
5. a group of persons associated for some criminal or other antisocial purpose:
6. a set of tools, electronic components or circuits, oars, etc., arranged to work together or simultaneously.
7. a group of identical or related items.

Verb phrases

1. gang up on, Informal. (of a number of persons) to unite in opposition to (a person); combine against:

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange in groups or sets; form into a gang:
2. to attack in a gang.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or act as a gang:
2. to walk or go.

Origin of gang

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

Examples for gang

Brooklyn musician Bobby Shmurda, whose ‘Shmoney Dance’ went viral, was arrested today on ‘gang conspiracy’ charges, police said.

The whole purpose of the gang is to generate money for its incarcerated leaders.

gang tattoos are still inked onto his face, like scarlet letters.

How do you feel about Archer and the gang abandoning the cartel and returning to the office?

If you're caught here to-night, where would you get off—caught here with a gang of burglars?

gang warlords, locked down in Super Maxes like Pelican Bay pass on instructions to thousands of followers.

I want to be sure to give the Turner woman time to get here while that gang is at work.

Then, when you get in with the right people, you will open the front door some night and let in the gang.

But no doubt the gang had thought caution to be the better part of hate.

"And that's why she's here now with a gang of crooks," he retorted.