gang : Idioms & Phrases

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baader meinhof gang

  • noun a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977
    Baader Meinhof Gang.
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baader-meinhof gang

  • noun a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977
    Baader Meinhof Gang.
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Chain gang

  • noun a gang of convicts chained together
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  • a gang of convicts chained together.
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Gang board, ∨ Gang plank

  • . (Naut.) (a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. (b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on.
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Gang cask

  • a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck.
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Gang cultivator, Gang plow

  • a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time.
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Gang days

  • Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below).
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Gang drill

  • a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft.
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gang fight

  • noun a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
    rumble.
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Gang master

  • a master or employer of a gang of workmen.
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Gang plank

  • . See Gang board (above).
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Gang plow

  • . See Gang cultivator (above).
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Gang press

  • a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates.
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Gang saw

  • a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart.
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Gang tide

  • . See Gang week (below).
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Gang tooth

  • a projecting tooth. Obs. Halliwell.
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gang up

  • verb act as an organized group
    gang.
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Gang week

  • Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. Halliwell.
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gang-flower

Gang"-flow`er noun
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  1. (Bot.) The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.
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gang-rape

  • verb rape (someone) successively with several attackers
    • The prisoner was gang-raped
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ganges river

  • noun an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus
    Ganges.
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Impress gang

  • a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.
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Live gang

  • . (Sawing) See under Gang.
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Live gang, ∨ Round gang

  • the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Knight.
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pentagon gang

  • noun a Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion
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press gang

  • noun a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy
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Press gang, ∨ Pressgang

  • a detachment of seamen under the command of an officer empowered to force men into the naval service. See Impress gang, under Impress.
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road gang

  • noun a gang of road workers
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section gang

  • noun a work crew assigned to a section of a railroad
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Slabbing gang

  • an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick beam.
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water gang

Wa"ter gang`
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  1. (O. E. Law) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.
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youth gang

  • noun a gang whose members are teenagers
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