Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun criminal organizations, collectively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun underworld organizations
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Examples
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His creator, sickened by the increase of crime decided, in 1931, to create a detective who could deal with gangdom via what he called "the hot lead route."
Archive 2010-06-27 Bill Crider 2010
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The anguish on Jingles 'brutish face was genuine and everyone in gangdom was well aware of his devotion to Gun Moll.
Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005
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It came when the hated snitch -- for gangdom hates the informer worse than anything else dead or alive -- had turned a sufficiently dark and deserted corner.
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