gang

1. 1.

   act as an organized group

   Synonymsgang up

   Broadergroup

Other forms of gang

plural

gangs·

past tense

ganged·

present participle

ganging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gang

What does gang mean?

gang means "an association of criminals". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gang?

gang has 1 syllable: gang. In IPA it is /ˈɡæŋ/.

What is another word for gang?

Close synonyms include pack, ring, mob, crowd, crew. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gang a common word?

gang is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.