ganged: meaning and definitions

A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.

A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.

Informal A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis: The whole gang from the office went to a clambake.

A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson: a railroad gang.

A matched or coordinated set, as of tools: a gang of chisels.

A pack of wolves or wild dogs. A herd, especially of buffalo or elk.

To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production: gang several pages onto one printing plate.

To attack as an organized group.

To join together in opposition or attack: The older children were always ganging up on the little ones.

To act together as a group: various agencies ganging up to combat the use of illicit drugs.