gang

IPA: gˈæŋ

A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
(US) A chain gang.
A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
A set; all required for an outfit.
(electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
(electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
(now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
(obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
(mining) Alternative form of gangue [(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.]

Examples of "gang" in Sentences

KING: And they were -- who gave them the term gang of five?
"My impression is that this is the work of a gang -- a _gang_."
The next day, the gang is at the airport to see off Nobu for her interview at Hokkaido.
And when the gang is after you, you really need to hide out in a county jail for a while.
We have a conspiracy among unscrupulous breeders to obtain this valuable cat, and hence, sir, we have a gang -- a _gang_. "
Leading Tzu-Lu and his gang is the gunslinger Jack Straw, a figure who is as much legend as reality, as much magic as lead.
As police investigate what they call a gang rape of a 15-year-old girl after a homecoming dance in California, the girl's parents have released a message.
The film certainly provides stimuli in its first 10 minutes we get our title gang of renegade heroes, evil Bolivian drug lords and their drug-mule children, a smoking school bus, girls in bikinis, enough high-caliber firepower to light up La Paz, an exploding helicopter, poignancy, death, a thirst for revenge.
He would certainly be made use of by the officers for the purpose of identifying the companions whom he had betrayed; and I had the best reasons in the world to believe that he would rather assist in the taking of me than in the capture of all the rest of the coining gang put together -- the doctor himself not excepted.