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gang up

gang up verb: to join together, as a gang.

Verb

gang up (third-person singular simple present gangs up, present participle ganging up, simple past and past participle ganged up)

  1. (idiomatic) To join together, as a gang.
    • And people talking all the time about the AfD is just what it wants: to foster the impression that the others are ganging up against it. The “authentic” voice of “real people” v the amorphous elite.2023 September 27, John Kampfner, “German politics has a built-in firewall against the far right. It’s beginning to crack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of gang up

third-person singular presentgangs up
present participleganging up
past participleganged up
pastganged up

Words formed from gang up

Questions about gang up

What does gang up mean?
Gang up means to join together, as a gang.
What part of speech is gang up?
Gang up is a verb.
What is the past tense of gang up?
The past tense of gang up is ganged up.

Words near gang up in the dictionary

  1. gang shows
  2. gang sign
  3. gang signal
  4. gang signals
  5. gang signs
  6. gang up
  7. gang up on
  8. gang vocal
  9. gang vocals
  10. gang war
  11. gang wars

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