Definitions for gangland

gangland gang·land

Spelling: [gang-land, -luh nd]
IPA: /ˈgæŋˌlænd, -lənd/

Gangland is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in gangland (aadgglnn).

Definitions for gangland

noun

  1. the world of organized crime; criminal underworld.

Origin of gangland

An Americanism dating back to 1910-15; gang1 + land

Examples for gangland

John Buntin, The New York Times Magazine A plan for peace in gangland.

Among people of his own kind this youth, Jimmie McGowan, was known as the quickest trigger in all gangland.

Here was music, dancing, drinking, gambling; just such a life as the hard working members of gangland demand while off duty.

And he himself was killed by the gangland of Fort Worth, Tex.

Fingers of steel had gripped his wrist and the king of gangland rolled over on him, twisting the gun from his hand.

gangland differences were forgotten in the larger issue of the common weal.

Then from the blasphemous mouth of the king of gangland there came a shriek of awful fear.

He also was quite a celebrity in that gathering—Larry the Bat was of the aristocracy and the elite of gangland.

Stace Morse—known in gangland as a man with every crime in the calendar to his credit, and prominent because of it!

As for that phone call—in the end, Alvarez-Marquez didn't end up helping the gangland matriarch get into the country.

Word Value for gangland
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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