Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or mode of fastening a fish-hook to the line.
- noun A section or part of a fishing-line to the free end of which a hook is ganged; a ganging-line.
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- verb Present participle of
gang .
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Examples
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So everybody's kind of ganging up on you on the right and left.
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They have all been in situations where the men were kind of ganging up on them.
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They have all been in situations where the men were kind of ganging up on them.
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They have all been in situations where the men were kind of ganging up on them.
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If so, it must take that kind of ganging up to make it a fair sparring session.
East Side Boxing 2009
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Hatfill found himself trapped, the powerless central player in what Connolly describes as a story about the two most powerful institutions in the United States, the government and the press, ganging up on an innocent man.
The Wrong Man 2010
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Hatfill found himself trapped, the powerless central player in what Connolly describes as a story about the two most powerful institutions in the United States, the government and the press, ganging up on an innocent man.
The Wrong Man 2010
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Indeed they're currently ganging up together to try and maintain the electoral system status quo...that speaks volumes!
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Asking to choose amongst these folks is like all your friends ganging up to ask you which one you like best.
John Krasinski, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Zooey Deschanel: Cute-off! | EW.com 2009
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He became a reflexive Republican attack dog, ganging up on Democrats and spouting the Republican orthodoxy.
Larry Hirsch: The Return of the Old John McCain Larry Hirsch 2011
hernesheir commented on the word ganging
A term once used in East Anglia for the old English custom of "beating the bounds" of the parish. --Walter Rye's A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia, 1895.
May 7, 2011