chain gang

1. 1.

   a gang of convicts chained together

   Broadergang

Questions about chain gang

What does chain gang mean?

chain gang means "a gang of convicts chained together".

Is chain gang a common word?

chain gang is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.