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gang

noun

1 a gang of teenagers:

band, group, crowd, pack, horde, throng, mob, herd, swarm, multitude, mass, body, troop, drove, cluster;

company, gathering, assemblage, assembly;

informal posse, bunch, gaggle, load.

2 informal John was one of our gang:

circle, social circle, social set, group of friends, clique, in-crowd, coterie, lot, ring, clan, club, league, faction, cabal;

fraternity, sorority, brotherhood, sisterhood;

informal crew, posse, squad;

rare sodality, confraternity.

3 a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway:

squad, team, troop, shift, detachment, posse, troupe;

working party.

verb

□ gang up

they all ganged up to put me down:

conspire, cooperate, work together, act together, combine, join up, join forces, team up, club together, get together, unite, ally;

rare coact.

gang (1) Oxford Dictionary of English