" gangs "

[Noun]  | "gang" | \ ˈgaŋ \

1: group: such as

2: a group of persons working to unlawful or antisocial ends; especially : a band of antisocial adolescents

3: a group of persons working together

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, "going, journey, road, path, privy, group of items forming a set," going back to Old English, "going, walking, journey, course, path, privy," going back to Germanic *ganga- (whence Old Saxon gang "walk, course," Old High German "walk, journey, passage," Old Norse gangr "going, course," Gothic gagg "way"), noun derivative from the base of *gangan- "to go" {mat|gang:3|} ;

  * Note : The meaning "set of articles" apparently first appeared in Middle English, the now predominant meaning "group of persons" in early Modern English (hypothesized instances of this sense in Middle and Old English are dubious). A direct descendant of Old English gang in Modern English would be gong (with the effects of vowel lengthening before the cluster -ŋg- and subsequent rounding of the long vowel in monosyllables), but this survived into Modern English only in the sense "privy"—the now general form gang for other senses was borrowed into standard English from northern dialects and Scots, where rounding never occurred. Use of both the noun and verb gang in its historical senses, denoting motion or passage, is now largely limited to traditional Scots.;

[Noun]  | "bik*er" | \ ˈbī-kər \

1: someone who rides a bicycle : bicyclist

2: someone who rides a motorcycle : motorcyclist; especially : a person who is a member of a motorcycling group

Origin: 1883 ;

[Noun]  | "chain gang" 

1: a group of people (such as convicts) chained together especially as an outside working party

Origin: 1813 ;

[Noun]  | "press-gang" | \ ˈpres-ˌgaŋ \

1: a group of people who force others into service; especially : a detachment under command of an officer empowered to force people into military or naval service

Origin: 1693 ;

 {see: |press:4|press:4};

[Noun]  | "section gang" 

1: a crew of track workers employed to maintain a railroad section

Origin: 1889 ;

[Verb]  | "gang" 

1: to move or act as a gang

2: to attack (a person) as a gang

3: to assemble (mechanical or electronic parts) so that they may be operated simultaneously as a group

Origin: 1791 ;

 Derivative of {see: |gang:1|gang:1};

[Verb]  | "gang" 

1: go

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English gangen, gongen & early Scots gang, going back to Old English gangan, gongan, going back to Germanic *gangan- (whence Old Saxon & Old High German gangan"to go," Old Norse ganga, Gothic gaggan), probably going back to Indo-European *ǵhenǵh-i̯̯e-, whence also Lithuanian žeñgti "to stride" ;

  * Note : Old English gangan, a Class VII strong verb, was used more or less as a synonym of gān, the ancestor of Modern English {go:1|go:1} (itself descended from Germanic *gēn-), though forms other than the present tense and infinitive rarely occur. In other Germanic languages cognates of gangan served and still serve as suppletive forms of the parallel cognates of gān. Compare note at {gang:1|gang:1}.;

[Verb]  | "gang up" 

1: to make a joint assault

2: to combine for a specific purpose

3: to exert group pressure

Origin: 1910 ;

[Noun]  | "gangs" 

[Noun]  | "gang" 

[Verb]  | "gangs" 

[Verb]  | "gangs up (on)" 

[Verb]  | "gangs up"