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Black gang

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.
  2. 2
    A propaganda term used by Mao Zedong against his opponents. derogatory, historical
  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, gang. (i.e. one with racially black members)

Etymology

Etymology 1

From black + gang.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 黑幫 /黑帮 (hēibāng, “gangsters, gang”). The first character, 黑, translates as "black" on its own.

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