road gang


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road′ gang`


n.
1. a group of workers employed to repair or build roads.
2. a detail of prisoners set to repairing a road.
[1885–90]
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Noun1.road gang - a gang of road workers
work party, crew, gang - an organized group of workmen
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Night and day the road gangs toiled on the streets.
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Those few moments in the air completely reset my perspective, from an uptight city dweller in a group of strangers, to part of a road gang - with its own embryonic in-jokes.
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Groups of us wartime youngsters tended to gather in parochial street gangs, and to be an official member of the Yew Tree Road gang necessitated walking the bank boards.
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