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chain gangs

chain gangs is the plural of chain gang.

Meaning of chain gang

Noun

chain gang (plural chain gangs)

  1. A group of convicts chained together to work outside the confines of a prison.
    • My idea was to let that chain-gang get out of sight before I climbed the hill.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205
  2. A group of cyclists riding in a close-knit formation akin to a road race, normally for the purposes of training.

Questions about chain gangs

What is chain gangs the plural of?
Chain gangs is the plural of chain gang.

Words near chain gangs in the dictionary

  1. chain ferries
  2. chain ferry
  3. chain fountain
  4. chain fruit
  5. chain gang
  6. chain gangs
  7. chain group
  8. chain growth polymerization
  9. chain growth polymerizations
  10. chain guard
  11. chain guards

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