Meanings
verbgang up (third-person singular simple present gangs up, present participle ganging up, simple past and past participle ganged up)
present singular third person gangs up · participle present ganging up · participle past ganged up · past ganged up
- idiomaticTo join together, as a gang.
And people talking all the time about the AfD is just what it wants: to foster the impression that the others are ganging up against it. The “authentic” voice of “real people” v the amorphous elite.
2023 September 27, John Kampfner, “German politics has a built-in firewall against the far right. It’s beginning to crack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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gang up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gang%20up
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“gang up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gang%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gang up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gang%20up.
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