gang up

Definition of Gang Up in English :

1. gang, gang up

act as an organized group

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gang Up

verb

(often foll by on or against) informal

to combine in a group (against)

n.

1. A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.

2. A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.

3. Informal A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis: The whole gang from the office went to a clambake.

4. A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson: a railroad gang.

5. A matched or coordinated set, as of tools: a gang of chisels.

6.

a. A pack of wolves or wild dogs.

b. A herd, especially of buffalo or elk.

v. ganged, gang·ing, gangs

v.intr.

To band together as a group or gang.

v.tr.

1. To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production: gang several pages onto one printing plate.

2. To attack as an organized group.