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  • noun Plural form of gang.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gang.

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Examples

  • It's like hearing that there are investigations to check out gangs infiltrating schools, and you get in a huff that people would dare think that the school kids are under investigation, ignoring that it's the * gangs* that are the target to protect the kids.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • It's like hearing that there are investigations to check out gangs infiltrating schools, and you get in a huff that people would dare think that the school kids are under investigation, ignoring that it's the * gangs* that are the target to protect the kids.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • "It's very informative to hear the prime minister of England describing the riots and the rioters in England by using the term gangs," Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari told reporters.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Though this malefactor had committed a multitude of robberies, yet he generally chose to go on such expeditions alone, having always great aversion for those confederacies in villainy which we call gangs, in which he always affirmed there was little safety, notwithstanding any oaths, by which they might bind themselves to secrecy.

    Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

  • She called on Assad to deploy the army throughout Syria to rid the country of what she called gangs.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • Though this malefactor had committed a multitude of robberies, yet he generally chose to go on such expeditions alone, having always great aversion for those confederacies in villainy which we call gangs, in which he always affirmed there was little safety, notwithstanding any oaths, by which they might bind themselves to secrecy.

    Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735

  • Children join gangs because of the pride of belonging.

    acceptance 2010

  • Children join gangs because of the pride of belonging.

    Healthcare 2010

  • Children join gangs because of the pride of belonging.

    acceptance 2010

  • The city was helping with the funding so that kids wouldn't be thrown out on the streets, join gangs, go on the welfare, or whatever else kids without an education do.

    Aurora's So-Called Corporation Counsel Alayne in Fantasyland 2009

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