ganged: meaning and definitions
EnglishType a word
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.