gang up
IPA: gˈæŋˈʌp
verb
- (idiomatic) To join together, as a gang.
Examples of "gang-up" in Sentences
- It give us gravitas, but it's a gang-up on Hillary, why?
- There had been the usual critical gang-up and the book had done poorly.
- Sending your own people to the conventions and other gang-up stories is fueled by one motivation: ego.
- Or the 37 day general election thereafter, which was a essentially a free-for-all gang-up on the Tories, and resulted in a 19-seat gain for the incumbent government.
- In hunter gatherer societies, the primary social ethic is equal 'sharing' - in which the majority gang-up to demigrate anyone who seems likely to become too dominant.
- I don't know if this is gang-up on Hillary week on YouTube, but thanks to a twitter from Dave Winer, I noticed this interesting update on Howard Dean's 2004 "scream":
- The allied gang-up was a shock to the Germans, who have long touted their expertise in Afghanistan and sharply criticized other NATO nations for being indifferent to civilian casualties.