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- noun Plural form of
press-gang .
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Examples
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We could go back to the days of Naval press-gangs and force the minorities into the Force or just let people make up their own minds what jobs they want to enter?
Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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And that HalliburtonKBR outsourced many of the US taxpayer-funded reconstruction projects to essentially unpaid press-gangs from 3rd world countries, even depriving Iraqis of jobs.
Matthew Yglesias » McConnell: Spending Can’t Work Except When It Can 2009
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As soon as the boat docked, he hastened to the home of his married sister, Pamela pronounced Pa-MEE-la Clemens Moffett, at 1312 Chestnut Street, where he sought refuge from what he imagined to be roving press-gangs of Union and Confederate toughs.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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As soon as the boat docked, he hastened to the home of his married sister, Pamela pronounced Pa-MEE-la Clemens Moffett, at 1312 Chestnut Street, where he sought refuge from what he imagined to be roving press-gangs of Union and Confederate toughs.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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A good old fashioned ripping out of the heart of poor Hawes, proving the age-old saying that when your best friend press-gangs you into digging up the decapitated corpse of a serial killer, you should definitely pass.
Simon’s Top Ten FRIDAY THE 13TH DEATHS w/clips & vids! | Obsessed With Film 2009
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The only thing to do was to go that way as well, as far as we could, and hope we met neither flames nor press-gangs.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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The only thing to do was to go that way as well, as far as we could, and hope we met neither flames nor press-gangs.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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Deeper pain pulses under one eye, where Dr. Troyka's wires hold the bones of his face together; microelectricity tingles along those lines, press-gangs bonebuilding osteoblasts into high gear.
Starfish 1999
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The press-gangs were supposed to only draft hale men and a few women, but were also given quotas and limited time.
And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997
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"Urn, I said," said the lad, visibly unhappy to have drawn the Pikemaster's undivided attention, "that they don't, uhh, have press-gangs in Valdemar."
And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997
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