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ganged

ganged is the simple past and past participle of gang.

Meaning of gang

Verb (1)

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

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To go; walk; proceed.
    • (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou...1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover. A Comedy., act III

Verb (2)

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

  1. (transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
    • Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […]1981, Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems, United States. Department of Defense, page 58

Verb (3)

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

  1. Synonym of gangbang.
    • He still liked the idea of them all ganging her [...]1970, Richard Allen, Skinhead, New Eng. Lib., →ISBN, page 104; republished as Skinhead, Dean Street Press, 2015, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    gangbang

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Forms of ganged

comparativemore ganged
superlativemost ganged

Words formed from ganged

Phrases with ganged

Questions about ganged

What is ganged the simple past and past participle of?
Ganged is the simple past and past participle of gang.

Words near ganged in the dictionary

  1. gangday
  2. gangdays
  3. gangdom
  4. gange
  5. Gangean
  6. ganged
  7. ganged up
  8. ganged up on
  9. Gangehi
  10. ganger
  11. gangerel

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