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gangers

gangers is the plural of ganger.

Meaning of ganger

Noun

ganger (plural gangers)

  1. (Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
  2. A horse that goes quickly.
  3. One who oversees a gang of workmen.
    • I was sent out to a little village called Wee-Wee-Rup where the ganger, Dinny Kelly, gave me an order on the store to get a tent and blankets[.]1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 28
  4. (coal mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
  5. A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.

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Proper noun capitalized: Gangers

Gangers

  1. (plural) plural of Ganger

Questions about gangers

What is gangers the plural of?
Gangers is the plural of ganger.
What part of speech is gangers?
Gangers is a proper noun.

Words near gangers in the dictionary

  1. ganged up on
  2. Gangehi
  3. ganger
  4. gangerel
  5. gangerels
  6. gangers
  7. Ganges
  8. Ganges River dolphin
  9. Ganges River dolphins
  10. Ganges shark
  11. Ganges sharks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gangers (page history and authors); Gangers (page history and authors); ganger (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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