black gang

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, gang. (i.e. one with racially black members)
noun
  1. A propaganda term used by Mao Zedong against his opponents.

Word forms

black gang black gangs

Etymology

From black + gang.

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