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black gang

black gang noun: a group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.

Noun (1)

black gang (plural black gangs)

  1. A group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, gang. (i.e. one with racially black members)

Noun (2)

black gang (plural black gangs)

  1. (derogatory, historical) A propaganda term used by Mao Zedong against his opponents.

black gang meaning in Tamil

black gang in Tamil

கருங்குழு

Forms of black gang

pluralblack gangs

Origin of black gang

From black + gang.

Borrowed from Chinese 黑幫 /黑帮 (hēibāng, “gangsters, gang”). The first character, 黑, translates as "black" on its own.

Words formed from black gang

Questions about black gang

What does black gang mean?
Black gang means a group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.
What is black gang in Tamil?
Black gang in Tamil is கருங்குழு. See Black gang meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is black gang?
Black gang is a noun.
What is the plural of black gang?
The plural of black gang is black gangs.

Words near black gang in the dictionary

  1. Black Fridays
  2. black frost
  3. black frosts
  4. black fungus
  5. black game
  6. black gang
  7. black gangs
  8. black gangster
  9. black gangsters
  10. black garden ant
  11. black garden ants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: black gang (page history and authors); black gang (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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