gang
 I. gang1 (găng)n.
1. A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.
2. A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.
3. Informal. A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis:
The whole gang from the office went to a clambake.
4. A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson:
a railroad gang.
5. A matched or coordinated set, as of tools:
a gang of chisels.
6.
a. A pack of wolves or wild dogs.
b. A herd, especially of buffalo or elk. See Synonyms at flock1.v. ganged, gang·ing, gangsv. intr.
To band together as a group or gang.v. tr.
1. To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production:
gang several pages onto one printing plate.
2. To attack as an organized group.Phrasal Verb:gang up
1. To join together in opposition or attack:
The older children were always ganging up on the little ones.
2. To act together as a group:
various agencies ganging up to combat the use of illicit drugs. [Middle English, band of men, from Old English, journey, and Old Norse -gangr, journey, group (as in thjofagangr, gang of thieves).] II. gang2 (găng)n.
Variant of gangue.
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