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Synonyms for gang

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for gang

an organized group of criminals, hoodlums, or wrongdoers

a particular social group

a group of people organized for a particular purpose

gang up: to assemble or join in a group

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Synonyms for gang

an informal body of friends

tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together

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act as an organized group

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He saw the two gangs, aggressive and sullen, rigidly keeping apart from each other and backing their respective champions; and he saw himself and Cheese- Face stripping.
Cheese-Face wanted to demur, - Martin could see that, - but Cheese- Face's old perilous pride was touched before the two gangs.
The time passed, and the two hostile gangs became very quiet.
He punched on, with his left hand only, and as he punched, doggedly, only half-conscious, as from a remote distance he heard murmurs of fear in the gangs, and one who said with shaking voice: "This ain't a scrap, fellows.
And meantime, agents of the packers were gathering gangs of Negroes in the country districts of the far South, promising them five dollars a day and board, and being careful not to mention there was a strike; already carloads of them were on the way, with special rates from the railroads, and all traffic ordered out of the way.
In every direction he heard some one or other of the gang hemming him in.
He saw in the gang of red-caps nothing but a crew of pirates burying their spoils, and his cupidity was once more awakened by the possibility of at length getting on the traces of some of this lurking wealth.
To follow up the course which the midnight gang had taken, however, was a harder task.
I suppose they thought I had got no end of a start; then they had made up their minds that I belonged to the gang, which was not so many miles away; and one of them had got as much as he could carry from that gang as it was.
Former gang members also removed the Batang Mindanao logo painted on the perimeter fences of the detention facility, Aljas said, adding that the inmates have pledged to stop the gang system inside the facility.
The ATC DG Khan has awarded 298 years in prison to Chotu gang ring leader, Ghulam Rasool alias Chotu and Sher Khan.
The ATC Dera Ghazi Khan has also ordered the convicts to submit Rs200,000 each as fine.Earlier in March, at least 20 gangsters including those affiliated with infamous Chotu gang were awarded death sentence by the anti-terrorism court Multan on charges of killing policemen in 2016.
The department recognizes we cannot arrest the community out of a gang problem.
LODHRAN -- The district police busted six dacoit gangs and recovered looted valuables worth over Rs two million during December 2018.
There is also an all-women gang known as Wakware Babies.