I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rival gang
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The street is a war zone between two rival gangs.
chain gang
gang rape
gang rape
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the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
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An armed gang has stolen jewels worth more than five million pounds from London's Hatton Garden.
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Between the 1740s and the 1820s, Romney Marsh was openly terrorized by armed gangs of smugglers.
criminal
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The island is also the traditional recruiting ground for criminal gangs along the Riviera.
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Behind the glitzy shopping arcades, ethnic criminal gangs fight for territory.
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Interestingly neither of these two people were sociologists, though sociologists have carried out participant studies amongst homosexuals and criminal gangs .
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Mr Samra said both men were wanted for involvement with criminal gangs in Bombay.
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The police have also taken on the football hooligans, the hippies, and the criminal gangs .
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The reason for the affray is unclear, though a police spokesman played down any suggestion of feuding between criminal gangs .
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Like all criminal gangs , Famlio specializes in profiting from human weaknesses such as pleasure, greed and fear.
old
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The youth charged in his murder was a 16-year-\#old black gang member from the Newhallville section of New Haven.
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The old gangs proved more efficient than the newcomers.
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He had not seen her for three years, but meeting all the old gang again had rekindled his curiosity.
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Others, however, find that an older generation of gang members has been beneficial in keeping younger kids from joining gangs.
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There, for years, to the peak of Paradise, we resorted every day, the old gang .
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Some of the old Showtime gang will surely attend.
rival
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Looking out over the crowd, I could see members of rival gangs .
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The school is in the thick of a war zone between two rival gangs .
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Martinez was convicted of ordering the murder of rival gang member Richard Serrano at a Montebello auto body shop in November 1998.
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The violence began outside a chip shop when rival gangs clashed.
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His life is devoted to fights with rival gangs , stabbing, mugging, drinking and taking drugs.
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Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs .
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The film is about rival immigrant gangs vying for control of 1850s New York.
whole
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He had everything he needed to arrest the whole gang .
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In an instant the whole gang of flashing boys swept in.
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Their duty done, the whole gang ran as fast as possible back to the engine and gathered in the cab.
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The whole gang became a bright and then a brighter set of luminous forms.
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There was a whole gang of us who went out together at the weekends.
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See you later with the whole gang , right?
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We would keep surveillance and follow the person who collects it, hoping to apprehend the whole gang and rescue Fontaine.
■ NOUN
activity
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President Clinton promptly announced a law to crack down on juvenile criminals and a new computer database to track gang activity .
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Although the school is virtually gang-free , most of its students live in the Mission area and encounter gang activity every day.
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Tracy Thompson grew up in Skyline, where gang activity was strong.
chain
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He did a stint on a chain gang , and he became a professional boxer for a while.
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Citizens have loved his reintroduction of the chain gang and the Army-surplus tents he erected to ease jail overcrowding.
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Tethered like a chain gang , the herd is led away between koonkies.
fight
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A religious pilgrimage ended with three men being stabbed in a gang fight on a beach.
leader
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Malvin Antario looks like a gang leader from Los Angeles.
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Alfred, a gang leader , had never been to college and was already married with a child on the way.
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A gang leader could hope to rise up the hierarchy of a hive.
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He was a gang leader , the most resourceful designer and executor of all manner of dangerous fun.
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The gang leader will share the balance of the payment either equally or by an agreed formula between the core members.
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Within two weeks gang leader Michael McAvoy and Brian Robinson were behind bars after a suspect cracked.
life
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She explains why these girls need love, direction, education, a way out of the lures of gang life .
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Pedro went on to describe the rhythm of gang life .
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Riccy was born into a gang life that has sent both his father and brother to prison for murder.
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After 2 1 / 2 years of gang life , Dee got pregnant.
member
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The gang members moved down the alley, their guns loaded and ready.
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The gang members , the hit men in here are at the top of their tree.
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In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint.
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Knight has repeatedly denied ever being a gang member .
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Brown received much heat for his proposal last month that gang members patrol the 14 Mission line.
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He later said the plan was to recruit former gang members and other neighborhood youths.
problem
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The governor also expects increases in funding for K-12 education to have a long-term positive effect on gang problems , Tremblay said.
rape
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It follows Operation Orchid, a police investigation into missing boys after a gang rape murder in London.
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Often, they said, a captive woman would try to attach herself to one leader to avoid repeated gang rape .
street
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They asked: were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible?
war
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His father's death touched off a minor gang war .
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Somebody in the rackets gets a bullet in him, people holler gang war .
warfare
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They become so excited during this gang warfare that humans can approach them much more closely than at other times.
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As you see, the perfect recipe for gang warfare .
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Dexter's interest lies not in gang warfare , but in the character of Peter Flood.
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By 2015, bitter enmities played themselves out in gang warfare , narcotics traffic, and addiction.
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This was gang warfare of a thoroughly nasty kind.
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This was no jailhouse rock, this was gang warfare .
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The gang warfare ripping through the shanties is fuelled by what has replaced politics after Aristide: prostitution, drugs and ritual.
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Black and Latino Angelenos living in this area experienced joblessness, gang warfare , urban blight.
youth
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At nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in the neighborhood.
■ VERB
arm
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Against a background of murder and intimidation, armed gangs of young men took over.
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Another armed gang made off with £4,500 from the Holywood branch of the Credit Union at the end of November.
involve
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Witness intimidation in cases involving gangs and drugs has been hampering many criminal prosecutions, the Justice Department report said.
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She was a nice girl, but she was involved in gangs .
join
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The authorities fail to offer prisoners protection from being attacked by others; joining the gang offers this protection.
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For his class, he seeks high school seniors who may be at risk of joining gangs .
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But after escaping to join another gang , Devi carried out a singular form of retribution.
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Others, however, find that an older generation of gang members has been beneficial in keeping younger kids from joining gangs.
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In London he had joined gangs who had thrown rotten tomatoes, eggs or whatever was at hand into Salvation Army meetings.
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Riccy recalls the first time he asked to join a gang .
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He pressed me to join his gang .
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And joining Spike's gang doesn't come cheap.
meet
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I've tae meet the gang at Kenmore Street the noo.
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They met the gang of shepherds going west and all went in together and knelt down at the manger.
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He had not seen her for three years, but meeting all the old gang again had rekindled his curiosity.
set
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Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men.
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Once he had seen a girl set upon by a gang of other girls on a descending escalator.
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Appleton has now set up a gang task force.
stop
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It is even possible that gang infiltration can be stopped .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a motorcycle gang
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Fighting broke out between two rival gangs.
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Inner-city kids often join gangs for protection, and for the chance to make money by selling drugs.
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It is not just gang members who get into trouble - it's middle-class and upper-class kids as well.
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Police say an armed gang stole nearly $1.9 million in a bank robbery over the weekend.
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Several gang members have been questioned about the shooting.
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She went with Sarah and Jacquie and the gang .
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There are always gangs of kids hanging around the shopping mall.
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Warning: gangs of pickpockets operate in this area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he was really his own gang .
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Detectives yesterday carried out house-to-house enquiries in the hope of tracking the gang .
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If it was a member of Connelly's gang it made no sense, yet who else would know about the shipment?
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Jesse Wood, 15, was kicked and slashed by a drunken gang at Richmond, London, last Christmas.
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Police believe it was taken by a professional gang of at least four, stealing to order.
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This is the guy who, in the first half, was moving as gracefully and quickly as an Alabama chain gang .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Now, however, there are worrying signs that the two biggest firms are ganging up on the rest.
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They were ganging up the patrols where they had had some action.
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Sometimes friends gang up on you.
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Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in?
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Why did genes gang up in cells?
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Why did cells gang up in many-celled bodies?
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The Harpies are vicious, hungry creatures who will gang up on any isolated individual.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All your recurrent fears of the world ganging up on you came to the surface, and you ran away.
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First then, why did genes gang up in cells?
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Now, however, there are worrying signs that the two biggest firms are ganging up on the rest.
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Sometimes friends gang up on you.
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Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in?