Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 26 compound words that contain gangs. The most common are listed below. Open gangs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- chain gangsplural of chain gang: A group of convicts chained together to work outside the confines of a prison.
- press-gangsplural of press-gang: A body of men employed to force others (impress them) into military service, especially naval service.
- street gangsplural of street gang: An organized group of lower-class criminals; an urban gang.
- black gangsplural of black gang: A group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.
- bridge gangsplural of bridge gang: A crew tasked with building, repairing and/or maintaining railway bridges.
- gang-gangsplural of gang-gang: A kind of cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).
- gangs upthird-person singular simple present indicative of gang up: To join together, as a gang.
- road gangsplural of road gang: A group of workers who do road repairs.
- Scooby gangsplural of Scooby gang: A small and cohesive group of people (usually teenagers) who regularly seek to solve mysteries.
- section gangsplural of section gang: A railroad maintenance crew.
- swing gangsplural of swing gang: The employees on a film set responsible for dressing the set before filming begins and then removal of the props once the film has wrapped.
- work gangsplural of work gang: A group of individuals assigned to, or engaged in, a common task.
- Gangs of Fourplural of Gang of Four: A radical political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
- gangs up onthird-person singular simple present indicative of gang up on: To join together in a group in order to overpower someone else.
- water-gangsplural of water-gang: A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
- towzery gangsplural of towzery gang: A group of swindlers who set up fraudulent auctions with shill bidders.
Compound words 26
- gangstersplural of gangster: A member of a criminal or street gang.
- gangstasplural of gangsta: Pronunciation spelling of gangster, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- GangshanA district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- Caingangsplural of Caingang: A member of the Kaingang people, an Indigenous Brazilian ethnic group.
- cybergangsplural of cybergang: A criminal gang that operates in cyberspace.
- downgangsplural of downgang: A downhill way, usually a path way.
- gangsawsplural of gangsaw: An arrangement of saws set in a single frame.
- gangsmenplural of gangsman: A member of a gang of workers, especially at a dock; a dock porter.
- gangstalkedsimple past and past participle of gangstalk
- gangstalkersplural of gangstalker: Someone who participates in gangstalking.